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