surface and subsurface water collection in small seasonal rivers is very crucial, particularly in dry seasons. in this study a type of intake is introduced which acts as a river drainage network. an experimental model of the subsurface intake was constructed and the effective parameters such as upstream discharge, installation depth, and drain intervals were evaluated. the results showed that t...

With the increasing use ofprefabricated vertical drains in the improvement of soft clay there are many types of these drains, both composite (with geotextile wrapping) and monolithic (without geotextile wrapping), available in Malaysia. Some engineers have the impression that all drains perform satisfactorily. However, case studies have shown that there are cases where vertical drains failed to...

43 A is an important water management practice in the midwestern United States to remove excess water from poorly drained areas and to provide traffi cable conditions for agricultural production. About 30% of the total land area and 50% of the crop land in Indiana is subsurface drained (Economic Research Service, 1987). Th ere are growing concerns about the potential negative environmental impa...

ABSTRACT: A model is developed to minimize the sum of road construction plus forwarding costs with the constraint that rut depth caused by the forwarder cannot exceed a maximum depth during the anticipated season of operation. Road spacing, forwarder trail spacing, and forwarder capacity are used as decision variables in developing the transportation plan. The total cost was minimized using the...

manual planting of sugar-beet stecklings is a very laborious and time-consuming opera-tion. to overcome the problems, and decrease the cost of operation to a reasonable level, a semi-automatic steckling transplanter was designed. the suitability of the steckling trans-planter with regard to the agrotechnical requirements of sugar-beet stecklings was stud-ied and the main field performance param...