The necessity of more structures warrants the demand of civil engineers who can guarantee standard services. Filipino civil engineers are known to be globally competitive. They exert full effort when doing projects to ensure their client’s contentment upon their performances. With this, vast number of Filipino civil engineers has achieved excellence advancing their trademark of their field of work nationwide and worldwide.
The success of engineers start at their training grounds. Civil engineers must practice their profession through quality education that they can get from universities that render the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Program. A lot of standard universities are available here in the Philippines such as the University of the Philippines (UP), De Las Salle University Manila (DLSU), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), University of Sto. Tomas (UST), and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP). These universities are certified by reliable accrediting associations such as the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU). Also, they produce excellent graduates that are among the CE Licensure Exam passers with high-passing rate.
Hydraulics: it’s Application in Building Dams
Civil engineers rigidly make a plan for a good foundation of dams especially that we are facing numerous disasters and catastrophe that is brought by climate change where the application of knowledge and concepts of hydraulics is highly needed for its better performance in construction. Engineers must consider the following: development of conceptual designs; management of water ways and environment; and design of dam that is essential for daily use.
A Hydraulic engineer develops conceptual designs for various feature which interact with water that fit on the environment. Dams are classified into hydraulic design and structural behavior. Dams are classified into overflow and non-overflow dams based on hydraulic design. La Mesa dam in Quezon city, Philippines is an overflow dam which permits the water to overflow that cannot be withhold by the reservoir. Punta Negra dam, a concrete-face rockfill dam of San Juan Province, Argentina is a non-overflow which is built as correspondent to hold water and not allowing to overflow its crest.
Dams are also classified based on structural behavior. Gravity dam and Arch dam. Bhakra dam, Asia’s highest gravity dam and second in the world, is a Gravity dam that is built hardly with concrete making it capable of opposing the force acting on it by its weight. Idukki dam of India is an arch dam that is curved and solidified which defy forces acting on it by arch action.
Dams pertain to the management of water ways and environment that prevents erosion and flood during calamities. Example is the installation of 300 hydroplus fuse gates in a new auxiliary spillway to protect the Jindabyne dam in the high country on Australia.
Through hydraulics, engineer can design a dam that is essential for daily use. Dams generate water that is much essential in the lives of every human living on earth. Agusan Dam, is a hydroelectric plant with two 800-kW turbine generators that uses the water of Agusan river in generating electricity and has the annual generation of 10,500,000 kWh that is connected to local allocation grid CEPALCO over with the Transco distribution line.
Dams collect and store water that is essential for industrial use and aquaculture. Angat dam produces water in the Manila metropolitan area and 90 percent of the water needs for Metro Manila is supplied by this reservoir by the compliance of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewage System and in Bulacan and Pampanga about of 28,000 hectares of farms in the province it irrigates.
Dams are undeniably helpful to the economy. Civil engineers are therefore expected to think of ways for further innovation of these dams, making them more substantial to the society. These developments could offer plenty of benefits to the society and to the environment.