IAHR MEDIA LIBRARY

MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY

APPLIED HYDRAULICS


HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES

Minimum energy loss (MEL) culverts and waterways (21)

Design discharge: 200 m3/s, barrel width: 10 m. Located on Norman Creek underneath the SE freeway beneath Ridge St. Operation on 7 November 2004: flood flow (80-100 m3/s) after 60-150 mm of rainfall in less than 3 hour: outlet operation, looking upstream.


© Hubert Chanson, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia