Manuals and Engineering Monographs
Engineering Manuals
- Design of Small Dams, 1987 [64.5 MB]!
- Design of Gravity Dams, 1976 [84 MB]!
- Design of Arch Dams, 1977 [80 MB]!
- Design of Small Canal Structures, 1978 [32.7 MB]
- Hydraulic and Excavation Tables, 1957 [18.7 MB]
- Hydraulic Laboratory Techniques, 1980 [12.2 MB]
- Water Systems Automation: State of the Art, 1973 [3.3 MB]
- Canal Systems Automation Manual, Volume 1, 1991 [13.5 MB]
- Canal Systems Automation Manual, Volume 2, 1995 [19.5 MB]
- Water Measurement Manual, 3rd edition, Revised 2001
(Hard-bound edition available for purchase from the Government Printing Office.) - Water Measurement with Flumes and Weirs, 2001
- Fish Protection at Water Diversions, 2006
Engineering Monographs
Bold items were created by the staff of the Hydraulics Laboratory.
- No. 3, Welded Steel Penstocks, 1949, revised 1966 [5.6 MB]
- No. 6, Stress Analysis of Concrete Pipe, 1950 [0.9 MB]
- No. 7, Friction Factors for Large Conduits Flowing Full, 1965, revised 1977 [6.6 MB]
- No. 8, Theory and Problems of Water Percolation, 1953 [4.8 MB]
- No. 9, Discharge Coefficients for Irregular Overfall Spillways, 1952 [3.2 MB]
- No. 13, Estimating Foundation Settlement by One-Dimensional Consolidation Tests, 1953 [4.1 MB]
- No. 14, Beggs Deformeter-Stress Analysis of Single-Barrel Conduits, 2nd Ed., Revised 1968 [4.8 MB]
- No. 16, Spillway Tests Confirm Model-Prototype Conformance, 1954 [20 MB]
- No. 19, Design Criteria for Concrete Arch and Gravity Dams, revised 1977 [3 MB]
- No. 20, Selecting Hydraulic Reaction Turbines, Revised 1976 [48.2 MB]!
- No. 23, Photoelastic and Experimental Analog Procedures, Revised 1962 [8.4 MB]
- No. 25, Hydraulic Design of Stilling Basins and Energy Dissipators, Revised 1978 [24.0 MB]
- No. 26, A Rapid Method of Construction Control for Embankments of Cohesive Soil, 1961 [2.1 MB]
- No. 27, Moments and Reactions for Rectangular Plates, 1963 [6.4 MB]
- No. 28, Petrographic and Engineering Properties of Loess, 1960 [4.6 MB]
- No. 30, Stress Analysis of Hydraulic Turbine Parts, 1962 [2.4 MB]
- No. 31, Ground-Water Movement, 1964 [3.5 MB]
- No. 32, Stress Analysis of Wye Branches, 1964 [12.2 MB]
- No. 34, Control of Cracking In Mass Concrete Structures, Revised 1981 [6.9 MB]
- No. 35, Effect of Snow Compaction on Runoff from Rain on Snow, 1966 [3.3 MB]
- No. 36. Guide for Preliminary Design of Arch Dams, Revised 1977 [1.3 MB]
- No. 37, Hydraulic Model Studies for Morrow Point Dam, 1967 [3.4 MB]
- No. 39, Estimating Reversible Pump Turbine Characteristics, 1977 [3.0 MB]
- No. 40, Selecting Large Pumping Units, 1978 [1.5 MB]
- No. 41, Air-Water Flow in Hydraulic Structures, 1980 [9.1 MB]
- No. 42, Cavitation in Chutes and Spillways, 1990 [12.4 MB] and accompanying software [0.3 MB]
Other Documents of Historical Interest
- Boulder Canyon Project Bulletin No. 3, Model Tests of Boulder Dam, 1939 [14.7 MB]
- Water Resources Archive at Colorado State University
Last reviewed: 12/24/08