River training works

Lecture notes: • 'Large' river training schemes • Channel regulation • Water level regulation • Discharge regulation (water and sediment!) • Navigation • River training works • Functions, layouts, structural aspects, current attack, scour, construction aspects, contracting, environmental/ ecological aspects • Dredging

Lecture notes on "The Role of Rivers to Mankind"

It is the task and target of River Engineering as a profession to provide all the tools for arriving at an optimum utilization of the potential resources, optimum in the sense of promoting the beneficial characteristics of the river and eliminating or at least checking the adverse qualities. To strive for this aim, there must be a scientific...