Course Details
Contemporary Weir Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Detail introduction to history of weir structures.
2. Sealing of weir body and weir wing underlay.
3. Overflow of fixed weir sill of movable weirs with high degree of submerge by downstream water, calculation of overflow consumption curve.
4. Surface hydraulic jump, divergent stilling pool.
5. Calculation and design of inflatable weirs – design of fixed low sill and calculation of consumption curve of overflow.
6. Calculation and design of inflatable weirs – design of inflatable structure and calculation of consumption curve of overflow.
7. Calculation and design of downstream apron including lining.
8. Design and calculation of inflatable weir equipment.
9. Informative static calculation of flap gate.
10. Informative static calculation of radial gate.
11. Informative static calculation of elements of stop logs and needle flashboard.
12. Principals of elaboration of weir handling regulations (in system).
13. Excursion.