Course: Water Structures

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Course title Water Structures
Course code KDS/XAVSC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmejda Aleš, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Soušek Radovan, prof. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Vlasák Pavel, prof. Ing. DrSc.
Course content
1. Water act 2. Water management, its stages and duties, hydraulic structures, reservoirs, open channel hydraulics fundamentals. 3. Rivers and watercourses, sediment transport, river morphology and categories, rivers in the world, rivers in the Czech Republic. 4. Purposes, principles and ways of river training. 5. Adaptation of river bed, design flow rate, bank lining, longitudinal and transverse channel profiles, stream bed protection, concentration structures, natural and urban river training, river revitalisation. 6. Weirs and dams, division (according material and construction types), plan layout, purpose, operation, accessories. 7. Dams in the world and in the Czech Republic, dam breakdown. 8. River navigability, regulation and canalization 9. Inland waterways, canals and their structures. 10. Waterways in the Czech Republic and EU. 11. Watercourses and communications crossing, water management interests. 12. Bridges and culverts, principles of design, hydraulic function, and design flow rate, bridge spare clearance.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
  • Preparation for an exam - 30 hours per semester
  • Term paper - 30 hours per semester
  • Participation in classes - 30 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire with basic principles of hydraulic structures and water management, rivers and watercourses, river training, weirs and dams, inland waterways and principles of communications and watercourses crossing.
The course deals with the basic principles, roles and methods of the water management. Student will get acquainted with rivers and watercourses, river training, weirs, dams and reservoirs, inland waterways and principles of communications and watercourses crossing.
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

Required attendance in seminars (full-time study only) Passing the exam
Recommended literature
  • Zákon o vodách č. 254/2001 Sb..
  • Bém. Vodohospodářské inženýrství. Praha: ČVUT, 1990.
  • Broža V., Haidl K., Patera A. Provoz vodních děl. Praha: ČVUT, 1989.
  • Broža, Vojtěch . Vodohospodářské stavby. Praha: Vydavatelství ČVUT, 1993. ISBN 80-01-01021-X.
  • Kolář, Václav. Hydraulika. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1983.
  • Novak P., Moffat A. I. B., Nalluri C., Narayanan R. Hydraulic structures Spon Press. Taylor & Franciss, 2001.


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