Technical Reports, Part 4

Miami conservancy district

1918

Contents

• Scope of this report: 16
• SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: 24
• Contracted opening estimates: 30
• Contracted opening investigations: 53
• Drop in water surface at bridges in the Miami Valley flood of March 1913: 59
• Maximum rates of flood flow of foreign and American rivers: 65
• Results of flood measurements Miami Valley streams 1913: 66
• Field investigations: 72
• Descriptions of experiments: 86
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Miami River at Tadmor: 87
• Miami River below Main Street Dayton: 91
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Miami River below Main Street: 93
• Miami River above Troy Pike Dayton: 96
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Miami River near the Troy Pike: 99
• Miami River cutoff channel: 102
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Miami River cutoff channel Novem: 103
• Miami River at Hamilton: 106
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Bogue Phalia River in Mississippi: 108
• Miami and Erie Canal Dayton: 109
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections St Francis River near Marked Tree: 114
• Ditch No 1 Mississippi County Arkansas: 115
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections Mississippi River above Carrollton: 122
• Bibliography: 123
• Present status of the formula: 130
• Humphreys and Abbots Mississippi River gagings: 132
• The factor n: 136
• Use of the formula: 144
• Measurements used by Bazin: 153
• Measurements used by Bazin: 164
• Chezy coefficients C computed by the Bazin formula: 173
• THE SIEDEK FORMULAS: 175
• Values of the coefficients a b and c Siedek formula: 183
• Resistance coefficient C for artificial channels Siedek formula: 194
• Comparison of measured velocities with velocities calculated by formulas of Siedek and Bazin: 195
• Condensed translation of Grögers Papers: 199
• Analysis of examples illustrated in figures 48 and 49: 204
• Variation of calculated from measured velocity Gröger Matakiewicz and Siedek formulas: 205
• Variation of calculated from measured velocity Siedek and Gröger formulas: 208
• Hessle formula: 210
• Velocities calculated by the Matakiewicz formula: 215
• Lindboe formula: 216
• Lindboes equations for calculating velocities: 218
• Schmeer formula: 223
• Exponential formulas: 234
• Miscellaneous formulas: 240
• Bazin and Kutter formulas: 246
• Conclusions: 260
• Experimental test of the contracted opening method: 266
• Hydraulic elements of cross sections contracted opening investigations on Mad River: 269
• Head at contracted openings 1913 flood measurements: 271
• An erroneous dropoff formula: 272

Bibliographic information

• Title: Technical Reports, Part 4
• Author: Miami conservancy district
• Published: 1918
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Sep 18, 2010