Course Details
Contemporary Weir Structures
Academic Year 2025/26
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.