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Water Management Building Constructions

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Course Unit Code546-0093/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
VAC78doc. 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).
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student who completes the course should be able:
- to characterise, discuss and process information about construction and operation of hydrotechnical works of various types and functions and to use the knowledge in practice,
- prepare his/her own concept of a small water reservoir,
- to defend his/her own proposal of a small water reservoir.
Course Contents
The subject is dealing with basic ideas, data for projection, functional and constructional solution of the hydraulic engineering ( reservoirs – dams, diversion constructions - weirs and riverbed drops, water roads and water energy utilization ).
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
[1] William George Bligh: Dams and Weirs: An Analytical and Practical Treatise on Gravity Dams and Weirs; Arch and Buttress Da, BiblioBazaar, 2009, 226p.

[1] BROŽA, V.,SATRAPA, L.: Hydrotechnické stavby 2- Přehrady. ES ČVUT Praha,
2007.
[2] ČIHÁK, F., MEDŘICKÝ, V.: Hydrotechnické stavby 20. Navrhování jezů. ES
ČVUT Praha, 2001.
[3] MEDŘICKÝ, V.: Hydrotechnické stavby 2- Vodní cesty. ES ČVUT Praha, 2007.
TOMAN, M.: Hydrotechnické stavby I, II – technické a provozní parametry
českých a slovenských vodních děl (1975 – 1995). ES ČVUT, 1991 a 1993.
Recommended Reading:
[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.

[1] BROŽA, V.,SATRAPA, L.: Hydrotechnické stavby 10. Přehrady. ES ČVUT Praha,
2000.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit33 (33)17
                Other task typeOther task type33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 (67)34
                Written examinationWritten examination20 10
                OralOral examination47 24