Sluice Gates
Water Pressure on Sluice Gates
Key Facts
Gyroscopic Couple: The rate of change of angular momentum () = (In the limit).- = Moment of Inertia.
- = Angular velocity
- = Angular velocity of precession.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher.
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.
Introduction
A sluice gate is provided, in the path of a river or a stream, to regulate the flow of water. For doing so, the sluice gate is made to move up and down with the help of rollers fixed to the vertical plates (called skin plates) which travel on vertical rails called guides. These rails are fixed on piers or vertical walls as shown in Figure. In between these two skin plates , a number of I-beams are provided horizontally to withstand the water pressure. As the water pressure varies with the depth, the spacing between the I-beams is lesser at the bottom than that at the top of the sluice gate.MISSING IMAGE!
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- = Wetted area on the upstream of the gate
- = Depth of center of gravity of the wetted area on the upstream side of the gate, and
- = Corresponding values for the downstream side of the gate
Example:
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Example - Water Pressure on Sluic Gate
Problem
A vertical sluice gate 3m wide and 2.5m deep contains water on both of its sides. On the upstream side, the water is 5m deep and on the downstream side it is 2m deep from the bottom of the sluice. What is the resultant pressure on the gate?
Workings
Given,
- Width of the sluice gate, b = 3m
- Depth of the sluice gate = 2.5m
- Depth of water on the upstream side = 5m
- Depth of water on the downstream side = 2m
Solution
Resultant pressure on the gate = 217 KN