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Water Management Building Constructions

Language of instruction čeština
Code 546-0093
Abbreviation VHSt
Course title Water Management Building Constructions
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vojtěch Václavík, Ph.D.

Summary

This subject deal with basic terms, documents for design / planning,
functional
and structural layout of water management buildings (reservoirs – dams,
diversion buildings – weirs, step weirs, water ways, water energy
exploitation).

Literature

[1] William George Bligh: Dams and Weirs: An Analytical and Practical Treatise on Gravity Dams and Weirs; Arch and Buttress Da, BiblioBazaar, 2009, 226p.

Advised literature

[1] L. Patricia Kite: Building the Three Gorges Dam, Raintree, 2010, 56p.
[2] Chris Oxlade: Dams. Heinemann Library, 2005, 32p.
[3] Lynn M. Stone: DAMS. Rourke Publishing Group, 2001, 48p.