Engineering Manuals & Monographs

Engineering Manuals

Some of these publications are still available for purchase in printed form at the Government Printing Office.

• 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] (Available for purchase from private publisher.)
• 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
• Water Measurement with Flumes and Weirs, 2001
• Fish Protection at Water Diversions, 2006
• Guidelines for Performing Hydraulic Field Evaluations at Fish Screening Facilities, 2009 [1.6 MB]
• Pocket Guide to Screening Small Water Diversions, 2014 [3.4 MB]

Engineering Monographs

Bold items were created by Hydraulic Laboratory staff.

• No. 1, Petrography and Engineering Properties of Igneous Rocks, 1948, revised 1961 [2.1 MB]
• No. 2, Multiple Correlation in Forecasting Seasonal Runoff, 1959 [2.8 MB]
• No. 3, Welded Steel Penstocks, 1949, revised 1966 [5.6 MB]
• No. 4, Project Effect on South Platte River Pollution, 1949 [1.9 MB]
• No. 5, Soap Lake Siphon, 1950 [2.5 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. 10, Reinforced Concrete Design Data, 1952, revised 1965 [7.8 MB]
• No. 11, Hydrodynamic Pressures on Dams Due to Horizontal Earthquake Effects, 1952 [1.9 MB]
• No. 12, Stresses Around a Gallery Determined by the Photoelastic Interferometer, 1952 [1.0 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., 1968 [4.8 MB]
• No. 15, Photoelastic Stress Analysis of Bridge Piers, 1952 [3.7 MB]
• No. 16, Spillway Tests Confirm Model-Prototype Conformance, 1954 [20 MB]
• No. 17, Surge Control on the Coachella Pipe Distribution System, 1954 [3.4 MB]
• No. 18, Hydraulic Laboratory Practice, 1953 [28.4 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. 21, Crustal Disturbances in the Lake Mead Area 1954 [3.7 MB]
• No. 22, Insulation Facilitates Winter Concreting, 1955 [4.6 MB]
• No. 23, Photoelastic and Experimental Analog Procedures, Revised 1962 [8.4 MB]
• No. 24, The Structural Behavior of Hungry Horse Dam, 1959 [27 MB]
• No. 25, Hydraulic Design of Stilling Basins and Energy Dissipators, Revised 1978 [24.0 MB]
  • (See REC-ERC-78-8 for updated information on Type IV stilling basins)
  • (See Research Report 24 for updated procedures for Type VI impact basins)
• 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. 29, Calculation of Stress from Strain in Concrete, 1961 [3.3 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. 33, Hydraulic Design of Transitions for Small Canals, 1964 [5.6 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, 1966 [1.1 MB]
• No. 37, Hydraulic Model Studies for Morrow Point Dam, 1967 [3.4 MB]
• No. 38, Potential Economic Benefits from the Use of Radioisotopes in Flow Measurements Through High-Head Turbines and Pumps, 1969 [1.6 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 [1.9 MB]
• No. 43, Aquatic Ecology Studies of Twin Lakes, Colorado 1971-86, Effects of a Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Project on a Pair of Montane Lakes, 1993 [16.2 MB]
• No. 44, Ozone Abatement in Air-Cooled Hydroelectric Generators, 1997 [18 MB]

Other Documents of Historical Interest

• Boulder Canyon Project Bulletin No. 3, Model Tests of Boulder Dam, 1939 [14.7 MB]

  Note:  Many other Boulder Canyon Project reports are available via our HYD report series; search for "Boulder Canyon."

• Water Resources Archive at Colorado State University

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