NDEJJE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND BUILDING
ENGINEERING
Bachelor of civil engineering year 2.
CIV 2103 Hydraulics.
Practical assignment 1- Kla Campus.
Instructions
Submit a report in soft copy form. Attach excel files containing graphs and tables
Submission deadline: 11th December 2021
Question
In groups of fifteen (10), Carry out a field visit to the stream in the valley between Kyambogo
University and the Minister’s village. Take a section of say 15m long (length differs for various
groups see Table 3) along a stream and for every interval say 3m length (interval differs for
various groups see Table 3), using tables 1 and 2 attached;

a) Within the clear section of the stream, mark a line and call it point A.
b) Along the direction of the flow, mark points B, C, D, E, and F, such that the length AB,
AC, AD, AE, and AF is L1, L2, L3, L4, and L5 m, respectively. Here, consider that
(L2-L1) = (L3-L2) = (L4-L3) = (L5-L4) = β.
c) Put a floating material e.g., a leaf at point A and determine how long (in seconds) the leaf
will travel to point B. Repeat this procedure for the points A and C, A and D, A and E,
and A and F.
d) Estimate the cross-sectional area of the flow at points A, B, C, D, E and F (equally divide
the stream cross section into αm say 0.3m and determine cross-sectional depths at d1, d2,
d3…. dn).
e) Plot a graph of the distance with time using measurements from (b) and (c).
f) Compute the flow rate Q in m3/s.
g) Determine the Hydraulic mean depth of the selected stream section.
h) Estimate the mean wetted perimeter for the selected section of the stream.
i) Estimate the Manning’s coefficient.
j) Compute the Chezy’s coefficient for the flow computed from (f).
k) Compute the Froude’s Number and determine the state of the flow.

Figure 1
 Group Interval for the length, 𝜷 Section length (𝜷𝒙𝟓)
1 1.2 6
2 1.4 7
3 1.6 8
4 1.8 9
5 2 10
6 2.2 11
7 2.4 12
8 2.6 13
9 2.8 14
10 3 15
11 3.2 16
12 3.4 17
13 3.6 18
14 3.8 19
15 4.0 20
16 4.2 21
17 4.4 22
18 4.6 23
Table 3