Purpose and Background

How many of you get confused when hydraulic engineers use fancy terms such as unsteady flow, allowable shear stress, hydraulic radius, Manning's “n” or 100-year flood? If you are a professional who needs to work with hydraulic engineers or read their reports as an input to your work, it is essential that you fully understand “where they are coming from.” This webinar will enable you to “talk the talk” and to understand the basis of the analyses that goes into hydraulic studies.

Discussion Topics

• What is hydraulics?
• Characteristics of flow and flow terms
• Manning's equation and its use
• Shear stress and applications
• Hydraulic calculation methods

Learning Outcomes

• Learn the fundamentals of hydraulics
• Understand hydraulic terms and how they are used in river and erosion design
• How hydraulic engineers compute water surface elevations, water velocities, and shear stress
• Learn how hydraulics is used for streambank protection and stream restoration
• Learn how hydraulic structures are designed
• Learn about the tools that hydraulic engineers use

Webinar Benefits

• Understand the thought processes of hydraulic engineers
• Comprehend how flow depth and velocity is determined
• Learn how hydraulics is used for bank protection and stream restoration projects
• Understand commonly used terms in hydraulics
• Understand the relationship between hydrology and hydraulics
• Learn about the many applications of hydraulics
• Be educated on how hydraulic engineers design channels

Webinar Outline

Part 1

• What is hydraulics?
• Things that we look for in hydraulics
• Characteristics of flow
• Hydraulic calculation methods
• What is important in hydraulics?
• Channel and floodplain definitions
• Flow terms
• Manning's equation
• Shear stress and applications
• Meanders

Part 2

• Shear stress at bends
• Bridge hydraulics and scour
• Culverts
• Weirs
• Channel stability
• Grade control