Course Details
Drainage and Landscape Protection
Academic Year 2024/25
BS005 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
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.Erosion in the world - classification of erosion, factor influencing erosion, intensity and acceptable limit
2. Modelling of erosion processes - classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins
3.Assessment of erosion hazard level - complex research and analysis of a watershed
4. Design of erosion control measures - classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
5. Torrens control - flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout
6. Determination of surface runoff parameters - simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds
7. Wind erosion - analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures
8. Drainage - reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil
9. Modelling of water movement in soil - classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff
10. Main drainage facilities - classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities
11. Detailed drainage facility - classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage
12. Special drainage - sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema
13. Influence of drainage on the landscape.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. - 6. Calculation of erosion and the proposal of new river basin organization
7. - 12. Calculation of surface and underground runoff, proposal of drainage structures