COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF AQUEDUCT

Abstract

The design of aqueducts is a multidisciplinary problem, and involves knowledge of hydraulics, and structural engineering. The structural design of aqueduct involves many tedious calculations, and the use of numerous charts and tables. Frequently, some careless human errors, which are fatal to design, may be introduced in calculations or in interpolations of design charts or- tables. The designing of such structures becomes tedious and time consuming job for designer. The cost of aqueduct and syphon aqueduct depends on , superstructure and substructure. The various design parameters should be judiciously chosen to obtain minimum cost of structure. For this, various alternative designs have to be examined by changing the design parameters, the one which gives minimum cost can be adopted. To study the variation of cost with various design parameters, a CAD package is a must, which is developed in this dissertation.