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Introduction to Highway Hydraulics: Fourth Edition

Introduction to Highway Hydraulics: Fourth Edition

Administration, Federal Highway
Transportation, U. S. Department of

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1508666172
ISBN13: 9781508666172
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 28 2015
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Highway hydraulic structures perform the vital function of conveying, diverting, or removing surface water from the highway right-of-way. They should be designed to be commensurate with risk, construction cost, importance of the road, economy of maintenance, and legal requirements. One type of drainage facility will rarely provide the most satisfactory drainage for all sections of a highway. Therefore, the designer should know and understand how different drainage facilities can be integrated to provide complete drainage control. Drainage design covers many disciplines, of which two are hydrology and hydraulics. The determination of the quantity and frequency of runoff, surface and groundwater is a hydrologic problem. The design of structures with the proper capacity to divert water from the roadway, remove water from the roadway, and pass collected water under the roadway is a hydraulic problem. This publication will briefly discuss hydrologic techniques with an emphasis on methods suitable to small drainage areas, since many components of highway drainage (e.g., storm drains, roadside ditches, etc.) service primarily small drainage areas. Fundamental hydraulic concepts are also briefly discussed, followed by open-channel flow principles and design applications of open-channel flow in highway drainage. Then, a parallel discussion of closed-conduit concepts and applications in highway drainage will be presented. The concluding sections include an introduction to energy dissipation, construction, maintenance, and economic issues.

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