COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF BARRAGE

Abstract

Quite often barrages are constructed across large and medium size rivers in India and other countries for diversion of flow for irrigation and power generation. The design of a barrage can be split up into two segments namely hydraulic design and structural design. The hydraulic design of a barrage involves careful selection of interi.cate para-meters like waterway, discharge intensity afflux which inci- dentally also affect each others. The conflicting require-ments involved in the selection of these parameters along with the repetative computations entailed in the trial, and error process of design make it an ideal case for develop-ment of a computer aided design of barrage.....