Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
River training for the construction of bridges across the Indo-Gangetic and other flood plains, where the width of the river may extend to several miles, has been a vexatious problem to the engineers for a long time. In the present day a method successfully adopted is to build guide banks to direct the flow through the bridge. The paper deals with the evolution of the modem river training system, the principles and the features of its design and an example to illustrate them. A list of important references on the subject is furnished at the end.
