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.