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.