Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt

Rivers and Canals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The enlarged 1896 two-volume survey of canal and river-drainage engineering by a distinguished practitioner and professor of civil engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781108080590
• ISBN-10: 1108080596
• Artikelnr.: 42760390

Inhaltsangabe

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.