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Hydraulic Book
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Hydraulic Book

Hydraulic Book

(OP)
What are the best books for teaching and explaining hydraulic theory from basic through to advanced theory?

I need these sources to be authoritative and credible, but also include good explanations and examples.  Multiple books are required I assume, but if a book tried to cover everything in one shot that would be interesting too.

I plan to use this book or books as references in writing and producing literature for not only my company, but also for a state and national organization.

The literature to be written I would describe as "popularization" of advanced technical concepts, intended to give lower level persons access to the concepts while not necessarily making them capable of design and responsibility.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

PUMPDESIGNER

RE: Hydraulic Book

Parker Hannifin has a series of books just for your requirements.

RE: Hydraulic Book

IPT Books publishes a series of trades books, complete with instructor's editions, and one of them is specifically on hydraulics. These are excellent, inexpensive (about $20 Cdn) soft cover books that are small enough to easily fit into a desk drawer or tool box. Dollar for dollar, these are easily the best industrial trades training books I've ever seen. www.iptbooks.com

RE: Hydraulic Book

Fluidpowerzone.com has an electronic hydraulics training program. I have not looked at it for several years, but it seemed ok.

RE: Hydraulic Book

Vickers has a historical library that will cover all your needs.

RE: Hydraulic Book

This forum has some good member entries and resources already listed in the links section under general information.

If these other links check out OK can i suggest adding them to the links (click the links tab above)?

RE: Hydraulic Book

(OP)
Thank you all for the help.

PUMPDESIGNER

RE: Hydraulic Book

Chadwicke and Morfett Hydraulics Civil Engineers have a good section on pumps as do the standard civil engineering structures textbooks
mdshydroplane

mdshydroplane

RE: Hydraulic Book

Part Deux This is a mix of hydrology hydraulics and the best pumping books can be tracked from the reference lists but each hydraulics has some on pump designs One of the better sources of information might be Somerset River Authority and then NRA,EA Bridgwater as they have a range of pump flow problems from beam pump to impellar.

RECOMMENDED  READING    
HYDROLOGY: CRITICAL STATE     FLOOD: HYDRAULICS     1991

ACKERS P.,               1978       Weirs and flumes for flow
W.R. WHITE,                          measurement
J.A. PERKINS and                      Wiley
A.J.M. HARRISON

ATTEWELL P.B. and          1976       Principles of Engineering Geology
I.W. FARMER                          Chapman and Hall

BRUCE J.P. and               1966       Introduction to hydrometeorology
R.H. CLARK                          Pergamon

BRYAN R. and               1982       Badland geomorphology and piping
A. YAIR                          Geo Books

CARSON M.A. and           1972       Hillslope form and process
M.J. KIRKBY                          Cambridge U.P.

CLARK L.               1988       Water wells and boreholes
                              OUP, Halsted/Wiley
CERNICA J.N.               1982       Geotechnical engineering
                              Holt, Rinehart and Winston
CHADWICK A.J. and          1986       Hydraulics in civil engineering
J.C. MORFETT                          Allen and Unwin

COOKE R.U. and           1976       Arroyos and environmental change
R.W. REEVES                          in the American south-west

DeWIEST R.J.M.           1965       Geohydrology
                              Wiley

DOMENICO P.A. and          1990       Physical and chemical Hydrogeology
F.W. SCHWARTZ                      Wiley

GREGORY K.J. and           1973       Drainage basin form and process
D.E. WALLING                          Edward Arnold

GREGORY K.J. and           1974       Fluvial processes in instrumented
D.E. WALLING                          watersheds  edt.  Inst.Brit.Geog.
                              Special Publication 6

HAUSMANN M.R.           1990       Engineering principles of ground
                              modification
                              McGraw-Hill

IASH                   1974       Flash floods symposium 112
                              International Association for
                              Hydrological Sciences
JACKSON N.               1980       Civil engineering materials
                              Macmillan

LAMBE T.W. and           1979       Soil mechanics
R.V. WHITMAN                          Wiley

NOVAK P.,               1990       Hydraulic structures
A.B. MOFFAT,                          Unwin, Hyman/ Chapman Hall
C. NALLURI and
R. NARAYANAN
PEREIRA H.C.               1973       Land use and water resources
                              Cambridge UP

RODDA J.C.,               1976       Systematic hydrology
R.A. DOWNING and                  Newnes
F.M. LAW

SMITH R.E.               1987       Foundations and excavations in
                              decomposed rock of the Piedmont
                              province
                              ASCE Special Publication  9
                              edt: R.E. Smith

SOPPER W.E. and            1967       International symposium on forest
H.W. LULL                          Pergamon Press



TCHOBANOGLOUS G.       1981       Wastewater engineering: collection
                              and pumping of wastewater
                              McGraw-Hill

YATSU E.,               1975       Mass Wasting
A.J. WARD and                          Geo Abstracts Ltd
F. ADAMS    

YEVJEVICH V.               1972       Probability and statistics in
                              hydrology
                              Water Resources Publications,
                              Colorado, USA


YEVJEVICH V.               1972       Stochastic processes in
                              hydrology
                              Water Resources Publications,
                              Colorado, USA

YOUNG A.               1980       Tropical soils and soil survey
                              Cambridge UP

ZENKOVICH V.P.           1967       Processes of coastal development
                              edt: J.A. Steers
                              Oliver and Boyd






USGS Professional Papers
US Soil Conservation Service USDA
US Forest Service
New Civil Engineer
Soil Water Conservation Engineering Schwab et al
New Zealand Journal Hydrology
All recommended sources

Happy 14 years ahead of you ! I have managed 37 and gone into Fluid Mechanics of plane flow systems interface, but that was UCW Aberystwyth’s “fault” for being so good at the course !

Remember the number of Structures people interested in hydraulics hydrology is low so if you can get to grips with flow mechanics and shear, seepage and geologic, soils work for Design you are a little Unique and works such as Richards and Hey are the rarity, The European on the Montenegro waste tip collapse are interesting articles and you can do worse than read The Guardian and Daily Telegraph news manuscripts on main projects. I suggest looking at a 3D computation software such as MicroGrafx simply 3D and some landscape modelling, you will need all the 3D imagination and preparation you can arrange as well as the photography and subsurface geologic sections, simple observations of surface channel hydraulics and all the plane flow patterns.

But try to think in terms of water flows in fissures and pore space, materials, plane elements and deflection and atmospheric dynamics of cell vapour transfers and you will be well set.

I would not read The New Scientist, try to stay with the physics systems works,
After all Hydrology is a Physical System and Structures are about reality Design, not politics.

Look at Web forums for hydrometeorology, satellite weather and statistics on Australian Climate effects on land use and agriculture and reliability (well researched), then there are the sedimentary basin geomorphology and tectonics sites when you want to become adventurous and get serious about flow and engineering structures. Always check the pipe flow people, they, because of Venturi, Chezy, Froude produce the best hydraulics analyses for structures hydrology. Can send you a CD book but it would require an address not encouraged by the forum and may be more than you wish to endure at present.
Pipeflow is best assessed by searching the formula for your own particular pipe systems and that can be started by using standards hydraulics texts such as Tchobanoglous and Novak, but the treatments are specific.
MikeHydroPhys

mdshydroplane

RE: Hydraulic Book

(OP)
Well, what can I say MikeHydroPhys, great job, I will save your post and refer to it.

PUMPDESIGNER

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