Introduction To The Design And Hydraulic Analysis Software

By Kenya Campos


Hydraulic design and analysis is very important because it helps to check an already existing or a proposed hydraulic system to see if modification or replacement is necessary. It helps to know if there are any possibilities of floods or the establishment of infrastructure resources like roads. This work needs to be very exact because it deals with safety therefore there needs to be a design and hydraulic analysis software developed to make this task easier and more accurate.

It is necessary that this analysis be done when the project is still in its first phase. Hydrological engineers should always be hired to carry out this task especially when there is the need for the installation of hydrological inputs. With the presence of the engineer, the project manager can be able to point out some factors that can eventually affect the cost and period for the whole project.

These elements can include things like floodway regulatory program imposed constraints, availability of some drainage structures that are inadequate and may need to be replaced, opportunities that will avoid total replacement of the full system and upcoming or ongoing projects on different locations and may affect the project they are working on.

The appraisal and design of drainage systems usually involves a general procedure. All the procedures contain some common factors and others that vary in different projects. The basic factors that make up the common factors in most of procedures may include surveying of the current characteristics, estimation of characteristics that may arise in the future, requirements, project criteria, constraints and other things.

The nature and scope of a hydraulic assessment and design varies with the type of project that is being undertaken and also the hydrologic setting of the whole project. Some projects may require just a minor alteration or repair while others require a full hydrologic assessment.

FEMA approves of the usage of softwares that are used to make the calculations for the normal depth and the establishments of the base floods elevations much easier. The softwares that are in the simple models can work effectively in finding solutions for the hydrological problems in a short period of time. Their models may vary but all of them surely make the jobs of these engineers less stressful. Many projects can be done with the same software at the same time therefore they save a lot of time.

The softwares are also equipped with advantage of configuration toolbars that allows the operators to create new working environments that will be supported by their work flows. They can also expand their hydrological toolbox by creating new work sheets to make the analysis easier.

To sum up, it is a fact that the evaluation and planning of a hydraulic system is essential before the starting of such project. By ignoring this step of a project, the engineers run the risk of creating inadequate drainage structures that may lead to flooding. They require these softwares to ensure that they prevent this and have accurate projects.




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