Irrigation Engineering

Water is required for agriculture. Sometimes this water requirement is fulfilled by rain, but there are some dry areas where irrigation is the only  process by which water is supplied to crops. Irrigation can be termed as the artificial process of applying water to the soil to help in growing agricultural crops or maintaining the landscapes when there is shortage of natural water by rain

Irrigation engineering deals with the analysis and design of irrigation systems which include dams, weir, barrage, canals, drains and other supporting systems etc.

Good knowledge of hydraulics or fluid mechanics is very much required for design of irrigation system.

There are different types of Irrigation techniques. Depending upon the mode of water distribution we can classify them as given below;

  surface irrigation

  sprinkler irrigation

  drip irrigation

  sub-irrigation

The above methods have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of efficiency and application.

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Pin-jointed Truss
Solved Examples on Application of equilibrium equations to find support reactions; truss member forces by method joints and method of sections.
Overhanging beam
Solved examples on shear force and bending moment diagrams for cantilever, simply supported beam and overhanging beams.
indeterminate beam
Solved examples on deflection of beam and truss by different methods like double integration, Macaulay's method, energy method (unit load method).

Indeterminate Frame
Solved examples on indeterminate structures by slope-deflection equation, moment distribution method, consistent deformation(compatibility)
reinforced concrete
Solved examples for determination of strength of reinforced concrete beams (singly reinforced and doubly reinforced).



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Bending Moment Calculator
Calculate bending moment & shear force for simply supported beam

Moment of Inertia Calculator
Calculate moment of inertia of plane sections e.g. channel, angle, tee etc.


Reinforced Concrete Calculator
Calculate the strength of Reinforced concrete beam

Moment Distribution Calculator
Solving indeterminate beams

Deflection & Slope Calculator
Calculate deflection and slope of simply supported beam for many load cases

Fixed Beam Calculator
Calculation tool for beanding moment and shear force for Fixed Beam for many load cases

BM & SF Calculator for Cantilever
Calculate SF & BM for Cantilever

Deflection & Slope Calculator for Cantilever
For many load cases of Cantilever

Overhanging beam calculator
For SF & BM of many load cases of overhanging beam

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