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