18CV63: Hydrology and Irrigation Engineering CIVIL Syllabus for BE 6th Sem 2018 Scheme VTU

Hydrology and Irrigation Engineering detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.

For all other VTU CIVIL 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU CIVIL 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for hydrology and irrigation engineering is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Module 1

Hydrology: Introduction, Importance of hydrology, Global distribution of water and Indian water availability, Practical application of hydrology, Hydrologic cycle (Horton’s) qualitative and engineering representation. Precipitation: Definition, Forms and types of precipitation, measurement of rain fall using Symon’s and Syphon type of rain gauges, optimum number of rain gauge stations, consistency of rainfall data (double mass curve method), computation of mean rainfall, estimation of missing data, presentation of precipitation data, moving average curve, mass curve, rainfall hyetographs.

Module 2

Losses: Evaporation: Introduction, Process, factors affecting evaporation, measurement using IS class-A Pan, estimation using empirical formulae (Meyer’s and Rohwer’s equations) Reservoir evaporation and control. Evapo-transpiration: Introduction, Consumptive use, AET, PET, Factors affecting, Measurement, Estimation by Blaney-Criddle equation. Infiltration: Introduction, factors affecting infiltration capacity, measurement by double ring infiltrometer, Horton’s infiltration equation, infiltration indices.

Module 3

Module 4

Irrigation: Definition. Benefits and ill effects of irrigation. System of irrigation: surface and ground water, flow irrigation, lift irrigation, Bandhara irrigation. Water Requirements of Crops: Duty, delta and base period, relationship between them, factors affecting duty of water crops and crop seasons in India, irrigation efficiency, frequency of irrigation.

Module 5

Canals: Types of canals. Alignment of canals. Definition of gross command area, cultural command area, intensity of irrigation, time factor, crop factor. Unlined and lined canals. Standard sections. Design of canals by Lacey’s and Kennedy’s method. Reservoirs: Definition, investigation for reservoir site, storage zones determination of storage capacity using mass curves, economical height of dam.

Course Outcomes:

Question paper pattern:

The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
Each full question will be for 20 marks.
There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

K. Subramanya, Engineering Hydrology, Tata McGraw Hill Publishers, New Delhi.
Jayarami Reddy, A Text Book of Hydrology, Lakshmi Publications, New Delhi.
Punmia and LalPandey, Irrigation and Water Power Engineering Lakshmi Publications, New Delhi.

Reference Books:

For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 6th Sem Civil Engineering, visit (CIVIL) 6th Sem Syllabus Subjects.

For all (CBSE & Non-CBSC) BE results, visit VTU BE all semester results direct links.

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