From: Hubert Chanson To: ; ; ; ; ; Subject: Rivers-List: Re: Hydraulics of Roman aqueducts Date: 16 April 2000 23:47 A journal article on Roman aqueduct hydraulics was recently published by the prestigious American Journal of Archaeology. It may interest you : CHANSON, H. (2000). "Hydraulics of Roman Aqueducts : Steep Chutes, Cascades and Dropshafts." American Jl of Archaeology, Vol. 104, No. 1, Jan., pp. 47-72. The article may be directly downloaded from the Web : {http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/Chanson_H_.html} Note that you wil need Acrobat reader 4.0 to best read the PDF file. Click on the Help (in the AJA website) to linked up to the Adobe web site. [The download of Acrobat Reader 4.0 is absolutely free.] Regards Hubert Chanson -- Hubert CHANSON Dept. of Civil Eng., University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia Ph.: (61 7) 33 65 35 16 - Fax: (61 7) 33 65 45 99 Email: h.chanson@mailbox.uq.edu.au Internet : http://www.uq.edu.au/~e2hchans ---------------------------------------------- NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW A new undergraduate text book in water engineering: "The hydraulics of open channel flow: an introduction" {http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/Scripts/webbook.asp?isbn=0340740671} The support Website is at: {http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/support/chanson/}. It includes sample chapters of the book itself !