Course Details
Drainage and Landscape Protection
Academic Year 2024/25
BSA004 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 3rd year
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. Determination of surface runoff parameters – simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds.
6.Torrents control – flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout.
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. 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