Course Details
Ponds and purpose reservoirs
Academic Year 2025/26
BSB010 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
6 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the topic, history and purpose of ponds and small reservoirs, ecological and economical benefits.
- 2. Location of the reservior, design fundamentals, rules and specifications.
- 3. Water management solution of small water reservoirs.
- 4. Layout and technical solution of small water reservoirs.
- 5. Dams – types, construction principles.
- 6. Outflow facilities – design, types, construction principles.
- 7. Safety spillways – design, types, construction principles.
- 8. Withdrawal structures, special objects.
- 9. Regulation of river channel under the reservoir, bottom arrangement and finishing of reservoir surrounding.
- 10. Errors in dams and objects design, defects and failures. Fundaments for design, valid regulations, surveys.
- 11. Operation and service regulations of small water reservoirs. Reconstruction of small water reservoirs, mud removal, faults of the pond dams, course of construction.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. First Introduction to seminars – axis of the dam, reservoir characteristics.
- 2. Longitudinal profile of the dam, the choice of dam height (4–6 m).
- 3. Longitudinal profile of the flood area.
- 4. Water management solution of the reservoir – water balance data for the profile (qa, Qa evaporation..).
- 5. Typical cross section of the dam.
- 6. Cross sections of the dam.
- 7. Calculation of outflow facilities.
- 8. Calculation of safety spillway.
- 9. Longitudinal profile of the safety spillway.
- 10. Layout of the dam with objects. Estimation the amount of sediment.
- 11. Technical report. Check, credit.