Course detail

Selected parts of hydrotechnics

FAST-CR03Acad. year: 2012/2013

Design and assessment of safety and stability of weirs, dams and objects related to usage of hydropower.
Sediment load motion and stability of stream bank sides.
Weir gates construction.
Design parameters of water turbines of water power plant working in different operation regimes.
Hydraulic solution and research of devices of WPP and navigation canals.
Loading, calculation of object local and overall safety.
New constructional solution, reconstructions, modernizations and intensification hydro technical objects utilization.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST-VST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The result is more detailed knowledge of problems of hydrotechnical structures, which follows the information of bachelor study program of Civil engineering.

Prerequisites

Courses related to water management - hydraulics, hydrology, structure foundation, earth mechanics, hydrotechnical structures, realization of structures

Co-requisites

Numerical methods, flood protection

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam: written test - 13 questions, Length: 90 minut.
Evaluatiuon: Individual questions evaluated by marks 1, 2, 3, 4.
Final classification:
points evaluation
13 – 17 A/1
18 – 21 B/1,5
22 – 28 C/2
29 – 35 D/2,5
36 – 43 E/3
od 44 F/4

In case of 5 or more questions evaluated worse than „4“ - final evaluation - F/4 – failed.

Course curriculum

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 fro 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.

Work placements

Not available

Aims

Studends gain more detailed knowledge of problems of hydrotechnical structures, which follows the information of bachelor study program of Civil engineeering.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not available

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Č. Štoll, S. Kratochvíl, M. Holata: Využití vodní energie. SNTL/ALFA, 1977. (CS)
M. Raplík, P. Výbora, K. Mareš: Úprava tokov. ALFA, 1989. (CS)
Sborníky ICOLD. ICOLD, 0. (EN)
V. Broža, J. Kratochvíl, P. Peter, L. Votruba: Přehrady. SNTL/ALFA, 1987. (CS)
Waltr Hans Graf: Hydraulics of sediment transport. Water Resources Publications, 1998. (EN)

Recommended reading

Bekseler, A.B.: Gidravličeskije rasčoty. Eněrgoatomizdat, 1988. (RU)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

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 at manipulation with gates.