Rivers and Canals

Klappentext The enlarged 1896 two-volume survey of canal and river-drainage engineering by a distinguished practitioner and professor of civil engineering. Zusammenfassung A distinguished consulting engineer and professor of civil engineering, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839-1907) specialised in canals, docks, and river works. This illustrated two-volume survey covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. It is reissued here in the enlarged 1896 second edition.

Zusammenfassung
A distinguished consulting engineer and professor of civil engineering, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839â1907) specialised in canals, docks, and river works. This illustrated two-volume survey covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. It is reissued here in the enlarged 1896 second edition.

Inhalt

Preface; Contents; List of illustrations; 1. Physical characteristics; 2. Measurement and formulae of discharge; 3. Regulation and canalization of rivers; 4. Dredging and excavating; 5. Locks, and fixed and draw-door weirs; 6. Movable weirs; 7. Prediction of floods and protection from inundations; 8. Deltas of tideless rivers and improvement of their outlets; 9. Jetties and breakwaters at the mouths of rivers; 10. Tidal flow in rivers, and forms of estuaries; 11. Dredging in tidal rivers; 12. Training works in estuaries; 13. Training works in estuaries (continued); 14. Experimental investigations on training works in estuaries; Plates.