Course Details
Waterworks Structures
Academic Year 2025/26
BSA001 course is part of 3 study plans
BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI 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.
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, English
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
basic knowledge of physics
Aims
Basic knowledge of water management, simple water management calculations and design of structures.
Basic knowledge of water management
Basic knowledge of water management
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
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
Recommended Reading
CEN – Evropský výbor pro normalizaci
ČNI – český normalizační institut
TNV – technická norma vodního hospodářství
ČSN EN – české technické normy harmonizované s EN
ČNI – český normalizační institut
TNV – technická norma vodního hospodářství
ČSN EN – české technické normy harmonizované s EN
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
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. Irrigations, drainage, watershed protection.
- 11. Municipal engineering.
- 12. Drinking water supply, treatment and transport of water, 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.