Course Details
Drainage and Landscape Protection
Academic Year 2023/24
BS005 course is part of 1 study plan
B-P-C-SI (N) / V Summer Semester 3rd year
Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water sources protection, water courses protection
History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and ground water runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and ground water runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Erosion, surface and underground runoff, river basin organization, ponds
Knowledge
Student gains knowledge about erosion, surface and subsurface runoff, organization of drainage area
Syllabus
1.Erosion in the world - classification of erosion, factor influencing erosion, intensity and acceptable limit
2. Modelling of erosion processes - classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins
3.Assessment of erosion hazard level - complex research and analysis of a watershed
4. Design of erosion control measures - classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
5. Torrens control - flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout
6. Determination of surface runoff parameters - simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds
7. Wind erosion - analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures
8. Drainage - reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil
9. Modelling of water movement in soil - classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff
10. Main drainage facilities - classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities
11. Detailed drainage facility - classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage
12. Special drainage - sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema
13. Influence of drainage on the landscape.
2. Modelling of erosion processes - classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins
3.Assessment of erosion hazard level - complex research and analysis of a watershed
4. Design of erosion control measures - classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
5. Torrens control - flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout
6. Determination of surface runoff parameters - simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds
7. Wind erosion - analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures
8. Drainage - reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil
9. Modelling of water movement in soil - classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff
10. Main drainage facilities - classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities
11. Detailed drainage facility - classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage
12. Special drainage - sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema
13. Influence of drainage on the landscape.
Prerequisites
Hydraulics, hydrology
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1.Erosion in the world - classification of erosion, factor influencing erosion, intensity and acceptable limit
2. Modelling of erosion processes - classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins
3.Assessment of erosion hazard level - complex research and analysis of a watershed
4. Design of erosion control measures - classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
5. Torrens control - flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout
6. Determination of surface runoff parameters - simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds
7. Wind erosion - analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures
8. Drainage - reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil
9. Modelling of water movement in soil - classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff
10. Main drainage facilities - classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities
11. Detailed drainage facility - classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage
12. Special drainage - sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema
13. Influence of drainage on the landscape.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. - 6. Calculation of erosion and the proposal of new river basin organization
7. - 12. Calculation of surface and underground runoff, proposal of drainage structures