Course Details

Waterworks Structures

Academic Year 2022/23

BS001 course is part of 3 study plans

​ B-P-C-SI (N) / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ B-K-C-SI (N) / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ B-P-E-SI (N) / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

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.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. Veronika Sobotková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of water management

Aims

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

Basic Literature

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)
Studijní opory k předmětu BSA001: kolektiv autorů, Brno. (cs)
ČSN – české technické normy  (cs)

Recommended Reading

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

Syllabus

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.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of physics.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/253055

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

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

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

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