Course detail

Waterworks Structures

FAST-BS001Acad. year: 2022/2023

History of waterworks engineering, organization of water management in CR and EU, The Water Act. Torrents, water courses
Water courses regulations, flood control, weirs, water courses restoration. Water abstraction from water courses, artificial channels, waterways, water reservoirs. Construction, arrangement and use of water reservoirs, ponds and purpose reservoirs. Watershed protection,land consolidation. Landscape restoration,landscape water management. Irrigation, drainage, municipal engineering, catchment of water sources. Water supply, water treatment, water reservoirs and water towers. Sewerage, sewage water treatment, sludge management, sewage water treatment plants, waste disposal, landfills. Balneology, water management research.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Veronika Sobotková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic knowledge of water management

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of physics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of VUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. Verbal lectures, excursions to the laboratories with special interpretation, basic hydraulic calculations on practice.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Granting of credit - completed self-presentations, submitted examples.

Exam - written test on PC and oral exam.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction and basic information about the subject.
2. Open water reservoirs, dams and water-power utilization.
3. Weirs, water withdrawal from watercourses, waterways and navigation.
4. Watercourses, their development and treatment, torrent control.
5. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – physical properties of liquids, hydrostatic and body filling, hydrodynamics.
6. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – steady pressure flow, flow of water in open channels, overflows.
7. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – outlet through the hole, energy height of the cross section (water jump), flow of groundwater.
8. Hydrology, water cycle in nature, measurement of climatic variables, hydrology of reservoirs.
9. Ponds and purpose reservoirs, flood control, dikes.
10. Watershed protection, irrigations, drainage.
11. Municipal engineering.
12. Drinking water supply, treatment and transport of water, balneotechnology.
13. Sewerage and sewage water treatment.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Basic knowledge of water management, simple water management calculations and design of structures.

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 applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČSN – české technické normy  (CS)
Studijní opory k předmětu BSA001: kolektiv autorů, Brno. (CS)
Šálek, J., Hlavínek, P., Mičín, J. a kol.: Vodní stavitelství. CERM, Brno, 2001, s. 144. ISBN 80-214-2068-5 (CS)
Veselý, J., Milerski, R., Mičín, J.: Vodohospodářské stavby. CERM, Brno, 2005, s. 164. ISBN 978-80-7204-759-8 (CS)

Recommended reading

CEN – Evropský výbor pro normalizaci
ČNI – český normalizační institut 
ČSN EN – české technické normy harmonizované s EN
TNV – technická norma vodního hospodářství

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Veronika Sobotková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Hydrological cycle in nature, development of rivers,torrent control and stream regulations 2. Dikes, weirs 3. River dams. 4. Flood control, navigation, water-power utilization 5.-7. Basic terms, relations and calculations in hydraulics and water management 8. Ponds and purpose reservoirs, watershed protection 9. Drainage and irrigations 10. River and reservoirs restoration, water purity, self-purification process 11. Municipal engineering, waste management. 12. Drinking water supply, balneotechnology 13. Sewerage and sewage water treatment.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Veronika Sobotková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. - 6. Excursions to the laboratories of water management institutes 7. - 12. Work up 6 basic hydraulic calculations