CE451 Water Resource Engineering

04/07/2010
Home Work # 8
8.12) The gravity dam whose section is sketched in the following figure has been
designed to include a spillway so that the maximum upstream water depth is
1 meter above the top of the section. Tailwater depth under design condition is
4 m. Using whatever tests you think appropriate, evaluate the design. Be sure
to state your assumptions.

8.22) Construct the flow net for a homogeneous earth-fill dam 45 ft high with an
upstream side slope of 3 horizontal to 1 vertical and a downstream side slope
of 2.5 horizontal to 1 vertical. Maximum depth of water behind the dam is 40
ft. The foundation is effectively impervious. If the hydraulic conductivity of
the embankment material is approximately 12 gpd/ft2, what is the estimated
seepage rate through the dam per foot of dam?

9.8) A dam has a siphon spillway whose cross section is 1.4 m high and 3.0 m
wide. Tailwater elevation at design flow is 3.1 m below the summit of the
siphon, and the headwater elevation is 0.6 m above the summit. Assuming
coefficient of discharge of 0.9, what is the capacity of the siphon? What head
would be required on an ogee spillway (Cw = 2.15) 3.0 m long to discharge
this flow? What length of ogee weir would be required to discharge the same
flow as the siphon with a head of 0.6 m on the weir crest?
9.11) Water flows over the ogee section of a low diversion dam 6 ft high at a rate of
15 cfs/ft of spillway length. The flow regime is like that of Fig. below. The
spillway coefficient is 3.6 and the tailwater depth is 3.0 ft. Find the net force in
the horizontal direction exerted by the water per unit length of this spillway.
How will it change if the tailwater depth drops to 2.5 ft?

9.23) What will be the depth after hydraulic jump in a horizontal rectangular
channel 12 ft wide when the flow rate is 350 cfs and the depth of flow before
the jump is 2.1 ft?