Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Any new engineering project almost needs for land grading computations and design. Many methods of computation, some are traditional and other has been recently developed, are already in use. However, there is no one simple method which satisfy the special cases that may be experienced, e.g., in irrigation engineering and site preparing of large hydraulic structures, a method that may enable the user to select the most economical stage of grading complying with his own case study. In this research a new method of gradually step by step land grading procedure has been proposed. The method is very simple, reliable and permits economical choices of solution. The procedure is based on relaxation technique of gradually grading of the land under work, that is, by cutting benches and filling pans that following the computed general slope of the whole area. By this procedure the land grading shall be graded gradually towards a horizontal plane of zero slopes in all directions, however, the user may select any suitable stage of grading that satisfy his case of design. The proposed grading method has been well explained through an explanatory example. The results showed that the method can be easily programmed for computer, provides several economical choices for the user, save efforts and money in using grading machines, and no limitations are needed in using the method.
Institution: University of Technology - Iraq
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Water Science and Technology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $50
OpenAlex ID: W3135551072