Civil Design I (CIVL4511/CIVL4512)
Teaching activities by Dr Hubert CHANSON

Civil Design 1 (CIVL4511/CIVL4512)

Outline
Bibliography
Lecture material
Projects
    Photographs of field work
Useful links
 

Outline

Subject rationale: The aim of the subject is to develop a sound understanding of the design of a civil engineering structure.
Assumed background: The subject is a professional subject. It is expected that the students have mastered the fundamental principles of civil engineering, including fluid mechanics and their applications to open channel flows (subjects CIVL3130 & CIVL3140).
The project outline file may be downloaded : Click here (version 31/3/05).

Bibliography

2nd edition + CHANSON, H. (2004). "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows : An Introduction." Butterworth-Heinemann, 2nd edition, Oxford, UK, 630 pages (ISBN 0 7506 5978 5).

+ CHANSON, H. (1999). "The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows : An Introduction." Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 512 pages (ISBN 0 340 74067 1). {Support website : http://www.bh.com/companions/0340740671} [Bookshop order of book] Corrections & Updates
Spanish edition : "Hidraulica Del Flujo en Canales Abiertos", McGraw Hill Interamericana, División Universidad,  Columbia (ISBN: 958-410-256-7).
Chinese edition : Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Committee, March 2003 (ISBN 7-80621-529-8).

Review : "Without a doubt, this is the best introduction to the introduction of the hydraulics of open channel flow that I have yet to read." Professor S.N. LANE, University of Leeds, Environmental Conservation, Volume 27 2000, Issue 3, pp 314-315.  {Read Full Review}
+ APELT, C.J. (1983). Hydraulics of Minimum Energy Culverts and Bridge Waterways, Australian Civil Engrg Trans., I.E.Aust., Vol. CE25, No. 2, pp. 89-95.

+ CHANSON, H. (2000). "Hydraulics of Minimum Energy Loss (MEL) Culverts and Bridge Waterways." Internet resource. (http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/mel_culv.html)

+ CHANSON, H. (2000).  Introducing Originality and Innovation in Engineering Teaching: the Hydraulic Design of Culverts, European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 377-391.
+ CHANSON, H. (2004). "Enhancing Students' Motivation in the Undergraduate Teaching of Hydraulic Engineering: the Role of Field Works" Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 4, pp. 259-268 (ISSN 0733-9380). (Download PDF file)

+ Introduction to catchment hydraulics CIVL3140 website
+ Advanced hydraulics of open channel flows, CIVL4120 website
+ Environmental modelling, CIVL4140 website
+ Softwares : HydroChan & HydroCulv by Hydrotools software (For teaching purposes only)

Lecture Material

Culvert hydraulic design
McGraw-Hill Interamericana A culvert is a covered channel of relatively short length designed to pass water through an embankment (e.g. highway, railroad, dam). It is a hydraulic structure and it may carry flood waters, drainage flows, natural streams below earthfill and rockfill structures. From a hydraulic aspect, a dominant feature of a culvert is whether it runs full or not.
The design can vary from a simple geometry (i.e. box culvert) to a hydraulically-smooth shape (i.e. MEL culvert). The lectures review first the design of standard culverts, then the design of minimum energy loss culverts.

Box culvert calculations
Hydraulic calculations of upstream head above invert bed for box culverts with  Inlet Control (Concrete Pipe Association of Australia 1991) (DOUBLE-CLICK  for full size .WMF file)
Hydraulic calculations of total head losses for concrete box culverts flowing full  (i.e. drowned) (Concrete Pipe Association of Australia 1991)  (DOUBLE-CLICK for full size .TIF file)
    Alternative : .PDF file (both charts)

More photographs of culverts ...
More about the design of Minimum Energy Loss culverts and bridge waterways ...
  MEL culvert outlet. Field trip in Aug. 2001 with CIVL3120 class
 

Projects

Design of waterways and culvert structures on Norman Creek. Description : Click here (version 31/3/05).

Field work on Monday 11 Apri 2005
Field works will place on Mon. 11/4/05 at Norman Creek. (The field work is compulsory.) Surveys of culverts and flood plains will be performed in groups. Project description : Click here.

Photographs of field work of 11 April 2005
Group 1 : students surveying the Birdwood St MEL culvert inlet, looking upstream from the barrel.
Group 2 : student discussion in the Ekibin MEL culvert inlet.
Group 3 : survey preparation, downstream of the Ekibin MEL culvert outlet.
Group 4 : field work preparation.
Group 5 : survey of the MEL waterway beneath the SE freeway.
Group 6 : survey of the Ridge St MEL culvert inlet.
Group 8 : flood plain survey downstream of Juliette St.
Group 9 : student survey of Cornwall St culvert.

Field work at Norman Creek, Group 8 Student field work, Group 1 Group 6, Ridge St MEL culvert

Photographs of Field Work on 13 May 2002 

Culvert inlet / Culvert inlet / Waterway and flood plain

Group No. 1 : Inlet, looking from the left bank on 13 May 2002.
Group No. 2 :  Inlet survey during Field survey.
Group No. 3 :  Field trip by CIVL4510 students (where are they?) on 13 May 2002.
Group No. 4 :  Flood plain during field work.
Group No. 5 :  Inlet during survey. Outlet (Courtesy of C. HINTON).
Group No. 6 : Downstream flood plain.
Group No. 7 :  Upstream flood plain on 13 May 2002.
Group No. 8 : Inlet survey during Field survey CIVL4510.

Useful Links

Rating : [***] = superb, must see - [**] = excellent

General

Rivers Seen from Space [**]
EPA Multimedia projects (USA) (computations, remote sensing)
Structurae, International Database and Gallery of Structures [**]
Gallery of Photographs in Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering and Engineering History
Internet resources in  Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering
Aerial photographs of American rivers and valleys [**]

The Formal Water Garden
 Unesco World Heritage Listing (for Virtual Tours, click here [**])
 

Basic Fluid Dynamics

Gallery of photographs in fluid dynamics by Mark Kramer [**]

Numerical modelling : backwater calculations

   Softwares
Hydrochan (TM)  [**]  Gradually-varied flows (1D) (for teaching purposes ONLY)
US Army Corps of Engineers HEC Softwares

Hydrology/Weather

National Weather Service Office of Hydrology
El Niño Information in California
Extreme reservoir siltation in Australia

River engineering

River of the World [Map] [**]
The tidal bore of the Seine river
Artifical river habitats and fish passes (photographs)
Flood plains (photographs)
Photographs of River Floods in Australia [**] (Search for : floods)
Aerial photographs of American rivers and valleys [**]

Water quality issues

Chicago Calumet waterway: sidestream aeration cascades
Petit-saut dam (French Guyana): aeration cascade
       Petit-Saut dam : photographs, dam details

Australian

Bureau of Meteorology
Goulburn-Murray Water
Hydro-Electric Corporation (Tasmania)
Murray-Darling Basin Commission
NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation
QLD Department of Natural Resources [Water, Storages]    [Glossary of terms]

Extreme reservoir siltation in Australia

Sediment transport

Mount St. Helens (USA), debris and mud flows, Photofile [**]

Extreme reservoir siltation
Sabo check dams

Hydraulic structures

California 1997 Flood Images
Chicago Calumet waterway: sidestream aeration cascades
Petit-saut dam (French Guyana)
US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla district  [Photographs are listed Here]
US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland district, Photofile [**]

Goulburn-Murray Water

 History of arch dams
 The Rideau Canal (Canada) incl. the 1831 Jones Falls arch dam [*]
 Steel dams

 Timber Crib Weirs in Queensland, Australia
 Air entrainment on chutes spillways
 Rubber dams
 Minimum Energy Loss (MEL) culverts and bridge waterways
 Embankment overflow stepped spillways: earth dam spillways with precast concrete blocks
 Spillway Aeration Devices to prevent Cavitation Damage in high-head chutes {http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans/aer_dev.html}
 

Dam engineering

ICOLD (International Commission on Large Dams)
Dams Safety Committee of New South Wales Australia
British Dam Society

Bureau of Reclamation Concrete Dams
US Army Corps of Engineers Reservoirs in Pittsburgh's district
US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla district  [Photographs are listed Here]
US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland district, Photofile [**]
Gabion hydraulic structures (small dams, weirs) [Maccaferri]
Steel dams
Timber Crib Weirs in Queensland, Australia
History of arch dams
Rubber dams
The Minimum Energy Loss (MEL) weir design
Overflow embankment stepped spillways

Itaipu dam (Brazil/Paraguay)
Petit-saut dam (French Guyana)

Spillway design and operation

 California 1997 Flood Images
 Air entrainment on chutes spillways
 Spillway Aeration Devices to prevent Cavitation Damage in high-head chutes
Stepped spillways
World's oldest stepped spillway (Greece)
Santa Cruz dam stepped spillway (USA)
Greeley spillway (USA) [*]
Stepped spillway photographs
Embankment overflow stepped spillways: earth dam spillways with precast concrete blocks

Culvert design

Hydraulics of Minimum Energy Loss (MEL) culverts and bridge waterways
Introducing Originality and Innovation in Engineering Teaching: the Hydraulic Design of Culverts, European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 377-391.
Hydraulics of Minimum Energy Culverts and Bridge Waterways, Australian Civil Engrg Trans., I.E.Aust., Vol. CE25, No. 2, pp. 89-95.
Softwares
Hydroculv (TM) [***] Culvert hydraulics (Complete download including VB support files : http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/dwilliam/download.htm) (for teaching purposes ONLY)
Hydrochan (TM) [**] Gradually-varied flows (1-D) (for teaching purposes ONLY)

Engineering Teaching and Education

CHANSON, H. (2004). "Enhancing Students' Motivation in the Undergraduate Teaching of Hydraulic Engineering: the Role of Field Works" Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 4, pp. 259-268 (ISSN 0733-9380). (Download PDF file)
CHANSON, H. (2002). "Paper vs Electronic !?!." IAHR Newsletter, Vol. 40, No. 3, p. 46.   (Download PDF file)
CHANSON, H. (2001). "Teaching Hydraulic Design in an Australian Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum." Jl of Hyd. Engrg., ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 12, pp. 1002-1008  (ISSN 0733-9429). (Download PDF File)
CHANSON, H. (2000). "Introducing Originality and Innovation in Engineering Teaching: the Hydraulic Design of Culverts." European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 377-391 (ISSN 0304-3797).   (Download PDF File)
CHANSON, H., and JAMES, P. (1998). "Teaching Case Studies in Reservoir Siltation and Catchment Erosion." Intl Jl of Engineering Education, Vol.14, No. 4, pp. 265-275 (ISSN 0949-149X). (Download PDF file) (Alternative PDF file)

Resources

 University of Queensland Library

 Measurement systems : SI Units and significant figures

 Reprints of Research Papers in Water enginering

 ICEnet: The Institution of Civil Engineers Homepage
 Japan Society of Civil Engineers
 ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers Homepage
 ASME Meetings & Exhibits Frames Index

 ENPC
 Welcome to the IAHR homepage

 US Geological Survey
 Civil Engineering Resources on the Internet (GuideMe.com)

 Highlights in the History of Hydraulics by Hunter ROUSE

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