Course detail

Protection Structures for Dams and Hydraulic Circuits

FAST-NRB019Acad. year: 2025/2026

The course provides students with information on the safety assessment of the water works during floods. N-year flows in the profile of the dam determining, design discharge, transfer the flood waves and its transforming through the reservoir. The use of emergency spillways and bottom outlets of dams for controlled transfer of flood waves. Converting of the control flood waves. The design of the emergency spillways, spaces of stilling basins and spillway channel for safe operation during floods. Designing of the multipurpose flow control structure of small dams and polder dams. Function and Designing of the surge tank of the hydropower plant. Water hammer exclusion of the direct impact in long pipelines and pumping stations circuits.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Šulc, CSc.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST)

Entry knowledge

Hydraulic, dams, hydrology, river training and weirs, hydro power utilization. Basic knowledge of statistics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Methodology and solution of hydrodynamic phenomenons including their modelling
1. Skilled summary about the problems of water resources management and data relationship to environment.
2. Claiming the knowledge for municipal government and skilled departments of MPO, MZE, MŽP.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIV Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Šulc, CSc.

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Šulc, CSc.

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.