Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways

by H. Chanson

Book Overview

Stepped channel designs have been used for more than 3,500 years. A significant number of dams were built with overflow stepped spillways during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before the design technique became outdated with the progresses in hydraulic jump stilling basin design. Recent advances in technology (e.g. RCC, polymer-coated gabion wire) have triggered a regain in interest for the stepped design, although much expertise had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058093522
• ISBN13: 9789058093523
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.1"