BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (BiT)

FACULTY OF CIVIL & WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

Course: Reinforced
Course:Surface Concrete Structures
water hydrology (HWRE3121) II (CEng 3092) Exam Date: 09/11/2013
Given Date: E.C
April 12, 2022
Exam Type:
Assessment FinalAssignment
Type: Exam (1) Time Allowed: 3hrs
Submission Date: April 27, 2022
Assessment Weight:
Exam Weight: 50%15% Semester:
Semester: II I
Students’ Admission:
Admission: Regular Regular Acad. 2020/2021
Acad. Year: Year: 2021/2022
Program:
Program: BSc in Civil
BSc Hydraulic & Water Resources Engineering
Engineering Year of Study: 3
Instructions:
Adress all questions accordingly
Similarity of the work(s) is forbidden
The assignment type is an individual assignment
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1. A bridge has an expected life of 25 years and is designed for a flood magnitude of
return period 100 years. (a) What is the risk of this hydrological design? (b) If 10%
risk is acceptable, what return period will have to be adopted?

2. Annual flood data of a certain river covering the period 1948 to 1979 yielded for the
annual flood discharges a mean of 29,600m3/s and a standard deviation of
14,860m3/s. for a proposed bridge on this river near the gauging site it is decided to
have an acceptable risk of 10% in its expected life of 50 years.

(a) Estimate the flood discharge by Gumbel's method for use in the design of this
structure
(b) If the actual flood value adopted in the design is 125,000m3/s what are the
safety factor and safety margin relating to maximum flood discharge?
3. The mean annual flood peak at a site is 280m3/s and standard deviation is 40m3/s.
what is the probability that a flood of 400m3/s occurring in the next 10-years,
Assume Gumble distribution.

1   0.5772
Hint: T
   K  
1  exp  exp     T  
   6  
What is the probability that a flood of 400 m3/s occurring?
a) One or more occurrences in the next 10-years
b) Two times in 10 successive years
c) Once in 10 successive years
d) Ten times in 10 successive years
4. Given below are the ordinates of a 6-h unit hydrograph for a catchment. Calculate
the ordinates of the DRH due to a rainfall excess of 3 cm occurring in 6-h.

Course Instructor: Kindie B.(MSc)

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 BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY
BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (BiT)
FACULTY OF CIVIL & WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

Course: Reinforced
Course:Surface Concrete Structures
water hydrology (HWRE3121) II (CEng 3092) Exam Date: 09/11/2013
Given Date: E.C
April 12, 2022
Exam Type:
Assessment FinalAssignment
Type: Exam (1) Time Allowed: 3hrs
Submission Date: April 27, 2022
Assessment Weight:
Exam Weight: 50%15% Semester:
Semester: II I
Students’ Admission:
Admission: Regular Regular Acad. 2020/2021
Acad. Year: Year: 2021/2022
Program:
Program: BSc in Civil
BSc Hydraulic & Water Resources Engineering
Engineering Year of Study: 3
Time (h) 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 69
U-H 0 25 50 85 125 160 185 160 110 60 36 25 16 8 0
ordinates
(m3/s)

5. Determine the unit hydrograph of the watershed of area 18.2km2 and that has the
following rainfall-stream flow data. Derive a 1-h unit hydrograph of the catchment.
Time (hr) Rainfall (mm) Stream flow (m3/s)

8:30

9:00 3.80

9:30 6.50

10:00 33.30 12.11

10:30 55.00 54.42

11:00 52.00 149.91

11:30 5.00 258.41

12:00 2.30 300.68

12:30 221.70

1:00 110.96

1:30 52.24

2:00 23.49

2:30 8.77

6. Given the ordinates of a 4-h unit hydrograph as below, derive the ordinates of a 8-h
unit hydrograph for the same catchment.

Time (h) 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44
Ordinates 0 20 80 130 150 130 90 52 27 15 5 0
of 4-h UH

Course Instructor: Kindie B.(MSc)

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