Course Details

Water Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

NRB022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jaroslav Veselý, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/295954

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to water management.
  • 2. Water circulation in nature, surface and subsurface runoff, basics of hydrology.
  • 3. Hydrostatics.
  • 4. Hydrodynamics, basic principles, terminology.
  • 5. Open channel hydraulics, river engineering.
  • 6. Flow in pipe network, water treatment, water supply.
  • 7. Sewerage, flow in sewers, waste water treatment.
  • 8. Groundwater hydraulics, drainage pit and pump design.
  • 9. Weirs and overflows.
  • 10. Dam engineering.
  • 11. Hydroelectric engineering. POV et ENVIMENT.
  • 12. Land reclamation.
  • 13. Excursions (geodetic measurements and the VD Kníničky TBD)and other related events beyond term.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Training of health and safety and fire protection. The grouping (up to 5 students). Program 1 – content (rainfall intensity, N-m-a-year day flow).
  • 3.–4. Program 2 – content (design trough).
  • 5.–6. Program 3 – content (culverts, bridges).
  • 7. Inspection and consultation to programs 1 to 3.
  • 8.–9. Program 4 – content (PPO construction and drainage water pump design).
  • 10.–11. Program 5 – content (the plan of the building, including the incorporation of the work schedule and geodesy et CN).
  • 12. Inspection and consultation to programs 1-5, submission, review, credits.
  • 13. Excursions (dam and power plant Kníničky - geodetic measurements and TBD). Credit.