Course Details

Waterworks Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BSA001 course is part of 3 study plans

BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction and basic information about the subject.
  • 2. Open water reservoirs, dams and water-power utilization.
  • 3. Weirs, water withdrawal from watercourses, waterways and navigation.
  • 4. Watercourses, their development and treatment, torrent control.
  • 5. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – physical properties of liquids, hydrostatic and body filling, hydrodynamics.
  • 6. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – steady pressure flow, flow of water in open channels, overflows.
  • 7. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – outlet through the hole, energy height of the cross section (water jump), flow of groundwater.
  • 8. Hydrology, water cycle in nature, measurement of climatic variables, hydrology of reservoirs.
  • 9. Ponds and purpose reservoirs, flood control, dikes.
  • 10. Irrigations, drainage, watershed protection.
  • 11. Municipal engineering.
  • 12. Drinking water supply, treatment and transport of water, 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.