Course Details
Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration
Academic Year 2025/26
DSB025 course is part of 3 study plans
DKA-V Winter Semester 2nd year
DKC-V Winter Semester 2nd year
DPA-V Winter Semester 2nd year
History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and underground runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water courses protection
Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water courses protection
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
Hydrology, Hydropedology,Landscape water management
Aims
Detailed theoretical and practical introduction with complex system of landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration, soil erosion and flood control in the watershed and drainage, focused on digital solution of complex project of watershed protection and drainage.
The student will obtain information about complex system of Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration in the watershed, focused on digital solution.
The student will obtain information about complex system of Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration in the watershed, focused on digital solution.
Basic Literature
Holý M, a kol - Eroze a životní prostředí, ČVUT Praha 1998
(cs)
HOLÝ, M. a kol.: Odvodňovací stavby. SNTL Praha 1984 (cs)
HOLÝ, M. a kol.: Odvodňovací stavby. SNTL Praha 1984 (cs)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction of subject.
2. Drainage assessment, water regime of wet soils.
3. Kinds of drainage, surface drainage channel and its arrangement.
4. Drainage, arrangement,deep and spacing of drains.
5. Special kinds of drainage, konstruction of drains, parameters of drains.
6. Wishmeier USLE equation.
7. Erosion and sediment transport modells.
8. SCS runoff curve number methods.
9. Complex soil and water conservation.
10. Technical and biotechnical methodes.
11. Design of basic parameters of measures.
12. Terraces.
13. Water resource protection, protection zone, revized zones.