RIVER TRAINING - Ayush Gupta
RIVER TRAINING - Ayush Gupta
RIVER TRAINING - Ayush Gupta
HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES
To make the high flood discharge pass safely and quickly through the reach.
To transport the sediment load including bed and suspended load efficiently.
To make the river course stable and reduce bank erosion to minimum.
To provide a sufficient draft for navigation as well as good course for it.
To fix the direction of flow through certain defined reach.
Classification of Rivers Training Works
They are made for guiding the stream near a structure so as to confine it in a
reasonable width of the river.
As it was designed by Bell,it is so called as Bell’s Bund and further developed
by spring and is known as guide bank.
The guide bank usually consists of heavily built embankement in shape of a
bell mouth on both sides of the channel.
Usually one embankement is required if the other end of the bank is high and
stable.
Groynes or Spurs
This consists generally of a sand core pitched with boulders along its side and
slopes.
These structures are protected at the toe by a falling apron.
Pitched island cause redistribution of velocity and tractive force.
These are useful in improving the channel for navigation purposes.
Bank Protection
It includes any protection work that aims at maintain the stability of land
against the action of water.
The purpose of bank protection is to save the banks from furies of flood.
Methods of Bank Protection includes vegetation cover and low growth of
shrubs, Stone revetment or various types of mattrsesses willow, lumber or
asphalt or articulated concrete.