Course Details

Waterworks Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BS001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Hydrological cycle in nature, development of rivers,torrent control and stream regulations 2. Dikes, weirs 3. River dams. 4. Flood control, navigation, water-power utilization 5.-7. Basic terms, relations and calculations in hydraulics and water management 8. Ponds and purpose reservoirs, watershed protection 9. Drainage and irrigations 10. River and reservoirs restoration, water purity, self-purification process 11. Municipal engineering, waste management. 12. Drinking water supply, balneotechnology 13. Sewerage and sewage water treatment.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. - 6. Excursions to the laboratories of water management institutes 7. - 12. Work up 6 basic hydraulic calculations