Infrastructure, Highway Design and Innovation 6501CIVSL (K.

Hashim) Week 12

Q1. Three lanes of a motorway (11m total) plus the hard

shoulder (3.3m) and hard strip (0.7m) are to be drained
using the triangular surface water channel shown.
B

y3 = 0.15m y1 = 0.12m
1 1
b1 = 5 b2 = 5

Symmetrical cross-falls: b1 = b2 = 5
Channel depths: y1 = 0.12m, y3 = 0.15m
Longitudinal channel gradient: S = 1/100
Manning’s roughness coefficient: n = 0.013
N = 1 year, 2𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑀5 = 3.2 𝑚𝑚

Infrastructure, Highway Design and Innovation 6501CIVSL (K. Hashim) Week 12

Q2. How many pairs of grating are required for an in-line

outlet to give an efficiency of 80%?

Q3. Calculate the gully separation for kerb and gully

drainage for a width of 3.65m with a 1 in 40 crossfall
and a 1% longitudinal slope, if Io = 58mm/hr,
B = 0.75m, Gd = 45s/m2, n = 0.017 and maintenance
factor m = 0.7 .

For trapezoidal channel with 1:be symmetrical crossfall

1
𝐵𝑏 + 2𝑏𝑒 𝑦 𝑆 0.5 𝐵𝑏 + 𝑏𝑒 𝑦 5 2 5 3
𝑟= 𝑄= 𝑟 𝑦
𝐵𝑏 + 2𝑦 1 + 𝑏𝑒2 𝑛 𝐵𝑏 + 2𝑏𝑒 𝑦 2

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Infrastructure, Highway Design and Innovation 6501CIVSL (K. Hashim) Week 12

Length between adjacent surface channel outlets

1.62
𝑆 0.5 2/3 −0.362
𝐴
𝐿 = 𝐺𝑚 𝑟𝑦 𝑁 − 0.4
𝑛 𝑊𝑒 2𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑀5
where for triangular surface channels
𝐺𝑚 = 2.9 × 106 2.65 − 1 = 4.785 × 106

Gully Spacing
2 1
𝐵 2 𝑆𝑐 𝐴𝑓 𝐴𝑓 𝑅 3 𝑆 2
𝐴𝑓 = 𝑅= 𝑄=
2 𝐵𝑆𝑐 + 𝐵 2 + 𝐵𝑆𝑐 2 𝑛

𝜂 𝑄
3.6 × 106 𝑄𝑚 100 𝜂 = 100 − 𝐺𝑑
𝑆𝑝 = 𝐵𝑆𝑐
𝑊𝑒 𝐼𝑜

Infrastructure, Highway Design and Innovation 6501CIVSL (K. Hashim) Week 12

28.6𝑄𝑑
𝐹𝑑 =
𝐵𝑑2.5