A.R. ENGINEERING COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING CE2301- IRRIGATION ENGINEERING PART A UNIT I INTRODUCTION 1. Define irrigation? 2.

2. What is irrigation engineering? 3. What is the scope of irrigation as far as engineering aspects are concerned? 4. What is the necessity of irrigation? 5. 5. What are the advantages of irrigation? 6. What are the disadvantages of irrigation? 7. What are the crop seasons in India? 8. Define crop ratio? 9. Define wilting coefficient? 10. Differentiate consumptive use and conjunctive use of water? 11. Distinguish between evaporation and consumptive use? 12. What are the factors affecting consumptive use/water requirement? 13. Define duty? 14. Define delta? 15. Define base period? 16. Define crop period? 17. What are the factors affecting duty? 18. What are the methods for improving duty? 19. Define field capacity? 20. What is mean by crop rotation? 21. Mention two crop rotation pattern? 22. What is soil water? 23. What is management allowable depletion? 24. What you mean by irrigation scheduling?

25. What are the soil moisture measurement methods? UNIT-II IRRIGATION METHODS 1. What are the types of irrigation? 2. What you mean by flow irrigation? 3. Why evaporation losses less in furrow irrigation? 4. Differentiate surface irrigation and sub-surface irrigation? 5. Define lift irrigation? 6. What is canal irrigation system? 7. What is tank irrigation? 8. What you mean by uncontrolled and controlled flooding? 9. What you mean by irrigation efficiencies? 10. What is infiltration rate? 11. Recommend a suitable method of irrigation for a hilly terrain? 12. What are the conditions favorable for selection of sprinkler irrigation system? 13. Write about the advantages of sprinkler irrigation? 14. What are the advantages of drip irrigation? 15. What are the disadvantages of drip irrigation? 16. What are the types of micro irrigation system? 17. What is fertigation? UNIT III DIVERSION AND IMPOUNDING STRUCTURES 1. Differentiate weir and dam (barrage)? 2. What are the classifications of weirs? 3. Write about elementary profile of weir? 4. What is tank surplus weir? 5. What are the types of dam? 6. Define gravity dam? 7. What is elementary profile of gravity dam? 8. What are the factors acting on a gravity dam? 9. What is arch dam?

10. What are the types of arch dam? 11. What are the forces acting on arch dam? 12. What are the various types of earth dam? 13. What are the failures that occur during the construction of earth dam? 14. Write about advantages of earth dam? 15. W rite about disadvantages of earth dam? 16. How a spillway differs from the sluice? List the different types of spillway? UNIT IV CANAL IRRIGATION 1. What are the classifications of canal? 2. What is canal alignment? 3. What is the need/necessity of canal falls? 4. What is the necessity of cross drainage works? 5. Differentiate aqueduct and canal siphon? 6. What is super passage? 7. What is level crossing? 8. What is canal head works? 9. Site selection for the storage head works? 10. Site selection for the diversion head works? 11. What you mean by canal regulator? 12. What is river training works? 13. Classify river training works? 14. What you mean by meandering of rivers? 15. What is groynes? UNIT-V IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT 1. What are the needs for optimization of irrigation water management? 2. How to minimize irrigation loss? 3. What is participatory irrigation system? 4. What is on farm development works? 5. What you mean by water users association (WUA)?

6. List the benefits water user association? 7. Define equity? 8. What is productivity? PART B (16 marks) 1. Explain the term duty and delta and derive their relationship? 2. Discuss the need for the irrigation projects in the Indian context? 3. Draw the layout of the canal irrigation system and how duty varies between various location from main canal to field channel. Discuss the methods to improve the duty in that system. 4. List out the various type of irrigation efficiencies and discuss any four? 5. Discuss in detail the planning and the development of irrigation project in the Indian context? 6. What are the methods of improving duty? 7. Define irrigation efficiency, draw irrigation system and define all types of efficiencies using that diagram? 8. Discuss some of the important irrigation projects of our country? 9. Discuss I brief the ill effects of irrigation? 10. Explain the term soil water plant relationship? 11. Explain the importance of crop rotation? 12. Explain the merits and demerits of irrigation in the present day. Also discuss the environmental consequences of major irrigation project? UNIT - II 1. What are the merits and demerits of irrigation? 2. What are the factors affecting duty? 3. Briefly explain about irrigation efficiencies? 4. What are the consumptive use of water? 5. Briefly explain about planning and development of irrigation project?

6. Write a short note on sub-surface irrigation, state clearly the conditions under which this method is suitable. What are the essential requirements for a successful sub-surface irrigation? 7. Write the merits and demerits of surface irrigation. UNIT - II 1. Briefly explain about canal irrigation? 2. Briefly explain about lift irrigation? 3. Briefly explain about tank irrigation? 4. Briefly explain about flooding methods? 5. Briefly explain about sprinkler irrigation methods? 6. Briefly explain about drip irrigation? 7. Explain briefly the Sprinkler and drip methods of irrigation systems. 8. State the relative merits of the above two methods of irrigation? 9. State the classification of surface irrigation? 10. Explain the various methods of surface irrigation system, bringing out clearly mer its and applicability of each method. 11. Classify the method of irrigation and write the objective of any three irrigation methods. 12. Discuss the suitability of sprinkler irrigation for Indian condition. UNIT - III 1. What are the factors affecting location and types of dams? 2. Briefly explain about tanks, sluices and weirs? 3. What are types of dams and dam arches? 4. What are forces acting on a dam? 5. Explain the design features of cross drainage works? 6. State the causes of failure of earth dams. Describe them briefly? 7. List the major types of spillways. Briefly explain their salient features wit suitable sketches and their suitability. 8. Explain the criteria adopted in designing various components of weir built on permeable foundation using kosala theory and write the limitations?

9. With sketch explain the merits and demerits of earthen dam? 10. What are factors to be considered during hydraulic design of dams? UNIT - IV 1. What is the necessity of river training works? 2. Describe in brief different types of river training works? 3. What is mean by guide banks? What are their functions and effects? 4. State the necessity and location of canal falls? 5. Briefly explain about classification of canals? 6. State the factors to be considered for the choice of a suitable type of cross-drainage work? 7. Briefly discuss the design considerations of a canal trough for an aqueduct syphon? 8. Distinguish between metered and non-metered fall? 9. What are the four types modern falls recognized? Briefly describe them 10. Briefly describe the salient principles of design of a straight glacis fall? 11. Explain how canals are classified? Discuss the methods to improve canal irrigation system? UNIT - V 1. Briefly explain about on-farm-development works? 2. What is the need for water users association? 3. What is the need for optimization of water use? 4. Briefly explain about percolation pond? 5. Discuss the role of farmers in water management? 6. What are the main functions of a head regulator? 7. What are the main functions of a cross-regulator? 8. State the various design considerations for the design of cross regulator and distributing head regulator? 9. What are various ways of minimizing irrigation water losses? 10. What is a percolation pond? What are its uses/advantages?

11. What is meant by participatory irrigation management? Expla in the concept briefly. Highlight the relative merits of participatory irrigation management that of a conventional management approach adopted in Engineering.