B E SEMESTER-VII (CIVIL) SUBJECT: IRRIGATION ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENTS TUTORIAL:1 1. Define irrigation. What is the necessity of irrigation? 2.

Explain benefits and ill effects of irrigation. 3. What are the different forms of soil-water? Explain Field capacity, Permanent wilting point and Readily available moisture. 4. Describe with the help of sketch various forms of soil moisture. 5. Calculate the depth of available soil moisture in the root zone of the clay-loam type of soil using following data: a. Field capacity = 27% b. Permanent wilting point = 13% c. Dry density of soil = 1.5 g/cm3 d. Root zone depth = 1.25m 6. Explain crop rotation, Root-zone depth, Kor period and Kor watering, Wilting co-efficient and field capacity. 7. Define: GCA, CCA, Intensity of irrigation, Duty and Delta. 8. Explain various factors affecting Duty. 9. How duty can be improved? 10. What do you understand by consumptive use of water? How it is different from evapotranspiration. 11. What are the factors affecting irrigation water requirement of a crop? 12. Explain various irrigation efficiencies. 13. Discuss various methods of assessment of irrigation water. 14. An irrigation channel runs for 125 days in a season when wheat is grown, total depth of water is found to be 38cm. Find the duty of irrigation channel water. 15. For a distributor the GCA is 500 Ha., CCA is 80% of GCA, the intensity of irrigation is 30% for wheat and 12% for rice. If the kor period is 3 weeks for the former and 2weeks for the latter, neglecting the losses, determine the outlet discharge. Assume suitable depths for kor watering. 16. What are principal rabi & kharif crops of India? Mention their time of sowing, harvesting, water requirement & number of watering required in general. 17. A main canal, which off takes from a storage reservoir, has to irrigate crops in a certain country having three seasons in a year. Duty at the head Crop period in Area to be Sr No Name of Crop of the main canal days irrigated in Ha in Ha/cumec 1 (a) Sugarcane 280 315 630 Overlap for sugarcane in (b) 100 70 630 hot weather

2 3 4

Jowar(Rabi) Bajri (Monsoon) Vegetables (Hot season)

120 120 120

4800 5600 350

1600 2800 700

a. Find the discharge required at the head of the main canal, taking time factor for the main canal as 0.7 b. What should be the gross storage capacity of the reservoir? Assume suitable factors, whenever needed.

TUTORIAL-2 (MODULE-2) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Explain the classification of irrigation canals. What are the factors that effect the alignment of a canal? Explain watershed canals and contour canals. Explain water losses in canals. Explain Kennedys theory for the design of irrigation channel in alluvial soil. Give drawbacks of Kennedys theory. Explain Laceys Regime theory. Explain advantages and disadvantages of lining of canals. What do you understand by water logging? What are the main causes of water logging? Explain different lay outs of tile drains with sketches. Design an irrigation channel to carry a discharge of 5cumec. Assume N = 0.0225 and m = 1. The channel has a bed slope of 1 in 5000. 12. Design a channel for 28 cumec discharge having B / D = 7.6 and N = 0.0225. Assume m = 1. 13. Design a regime channel for a discharge of 50 cumecs and silt factor 1.1, using Laceys theory. 14. Draw typical cross section of an irrigation canal and explain various terms related to it.

Module III DIVERSION HEAD WORKS

1. What is canal headwork? Describe functions of canal headworks. Draw its layout. 2. Draw neat sketch of canal head regulators. Write down its functions. 3. What are the limitations of blighs theory? 4. Explain khoslas method of independent variable & their corrections 5. Fig. shows a hydraulic structure built up on fine sand ( c = 15). Determine a) Whether the percolation gradient is safe. b) Uplift pressure at point A, B & C at distance 15, 25, 35 m from u/s end/ c) Thickness of the floor at these points Use Blighs theory. Take G = 2.2

4m A 6m B C

15 m

10 m 35 m

10 m

8m

6. Determine the uplift pressure at the salient points E1, D1 & C1 of the u/s pile shown in the fig.

4m

E1 5m

C1

D1

35 m

7. Determine the uplift pressure at the salient points E, D & C of the d/s pile shown in fig. Also determine the exit gradient.

4m

C 5m

40 m

Module IV CROSS DRAINAGE WORKS

1. Describe the various types of CD works on canal with the help of neat sketch. In which condition, each type is moat suitable. 2. Discuss the effect of the change of the alignment of the canal on the type of CD works? 3. What factors will you consider while selecting a suitable site of CD works? 4. What is transition? What is its purpose? 5. Explain the method of determining uplift pressure on barrel roof of siphon aqueduct.

CANAL REGULATION WORKS

1. What is canal fall? Discuss each type of fall with a neat sketch. 2. What are the factors governing alignment of the off taking canals? Discuss various types of alignment. 3. Explain the functions of the distributory head regulator & cross regulator. 4. What is an escape? What are different types of escapes? Draw neat sketch of each type.