Course Details

Protection Structures for Dams and Hydraulic Circuits

Academic Year 2025/26

NRB019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Šulc, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295734

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. The safety assessment of the water works during floods, flood waves, design discharge, control flood, calculations of the transformation, run-off control.
  • 2. Emergency spillway of dams' lateral, frontal, shaft, restrain system in front of weir.
  • 3. Designs of safety shapes of the frontal and lateral weirs, spaces of stilling basins and spillway channel.
  • 4. Designs of safety shapes of the shaft weir, the flow regimes.
  • 5. The bottom outlets, equipment, control, capacity calculating.
  • 6. Stilling basins, objects for energy dissipation.
  • 7. Pooled objects of small dam, polder dam, boulder chute.
  • 8. Outlet tunnels.
  • 9. Surge tank – solutions of the level dynamic, water hammer and its elimination.
  • 10. Behavior of the movable weir during flood, water distribution works on rivers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Weir-nape profiling for different values of pressure.
  • 3. Shaft spillway profiling, outlet tunnel designing.
  • 4.–5. Rectangular prismatic and divergent stilling basin designing.
  • 6.–7. Design of a combined object in small dams and polder dams.
  • 8. Hydraulic design of bottom outlet in the dam.
  • 9.–10. Designing of the surge tank and the gate closing for the exclusion of the direct impact in the pipeline.