Course Details
Selected Chapters of Hydrotechnics
Academic Year 2024/25
NRA013 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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.–3. Assessment of stability of weirs and dams and their underlay.
4.–6. Determination of design parameters of water power plant turbines. Hydraulic research and solution of individual functional elements of WPP.
7.–8. Sediment load motion and stability of stream bank sides.
9.–10. Design and calculation of gates of movable weirs.
11. Environmental project of structure, continuity and relationships of design and natural conditions - legislation. New program products for design of hydro technical structures.
12. Downflow baffles for oil products interception and measurements of discharges and volumes on streams and sewer systems.
13. Risks in water management, their determination and evaluation, influence on technical solution and economy of structure.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. River bed stabilization, boulder chutes.
2. Design of boulder chute, calculus.
3. Design of boulder chute, drawings.
4. Wave runup on upstream face of the dam, freeboard.
5. Concrete dams, global stability.
6. Embankment dams, global stability.
7. Embankment dams, breaching due to overtopping.
8. Theoretical background for bottom outlet hydraulics.
9. Hydraulic calculation of bottom outlet, emptying of the reservoir.
10. The calculation of forces acting on the gate of bottom outlet.
11. Design of weir movable gate.
12. Hydrotechnical calculation of weir rating curve.
13. Hydrotechnical calculation of weir rating curve at manipulation with gates.