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Water Management Facilities

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Course Unit Code546-0484/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third 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,
- to deal with tasks and apply model situations comprising hydraulic calculations for hydrotechnical facilities.
Course Contents
Curriculum:
1. Diversion weirs. Basic terms.
2. Specific features of hydrotechnical facilities.
3. Source data for designing of hydrotechnical facilities. Research works. Influence of hydrotechnical facilities on natural and living environments.
4. Loading of hydrotechnical facilities: loading caused by water, own weight, pressure of soil and rock, changing temperature or volume, seismic activities.
5. Diversion weirs. Dams: gravity dams, arch dams, multiple dams, special-construction dams.
6. Weirs: fixed weirs and gates weirs.
7. Equipment of diversion weir facilities: emergency spillways, bottom outlets, gravel chute and fish passes.
8. Water take-off facilities and water transport facilities.
9. Waterways: inland navigation, adjustments of waterways for navigation, inland canals, waterway facilities, waterways and environment.
10. Using energy of water. Generation of energy and power. Water equipment. Hydraulic power plants in a power grid. Types of hydraulic power plants.
11. Hydraulic power plants. Pumped storage hydro plants. Small-size hydro plants. Use of water energy and environment.
12. Foundations of hydrotechnical facilities.
13. Dewatering of dam bodies. Embankment and fieldwork on slopes. Leakage in dams and dam environment. Calculation of water leakage through dam bodies and subsoil.

Framework plan of seminars:
1. Basic terms of hydrotechnical facilities. Division of facilities. A sample simple profile of homogeneous and non-homogeneous dams. A transverse cross-section through a fixed concrete weir.
2. Source data for designing of hydrotechnical facilities. General terms used in hydrostatistics and hydrodynamics.
3. Discharge of water through an opening in a vessel. General formula for discharge through a small opening. Adjustment of the basis formula for a real liquid. Discharge through a big opening. Adjustment of a discharge opening.
4. Hydrostatic force of the liquid. Hydrostatic force of the horizontal bottom. Hydrostatic force applied onto a general plane. Graphical solution to hydrostatic forces.
5. Example of a hydrostatic force applied onto a planar and curved surface.
6. Even and stable motion in a watershed. Basic equations for the motion in a watershed. Determining a velocity coefficient. Transverse profiles of watersheds. Calculation of a flow rate in a watershed.
7. Tranquil and shooting flow. Hydraulic jump – critical tranquil and shooting flow. Definition of a water flow. Calculation of a water flow. Designing a stilling basin.
8. Hydraulic parameters of bridges and culverts. Uneven steady motion. Water level shapes in uneven motion.
9. Uneven motion. Oscillation waves. Translation waves. Water shocks in pipes. Emptying and filling of vessels.
10. Overflow of liquid across a wall. Definitions and breakdown of overflows. Types of overflow beams. Metering overflow with a side narrowing. Overflows in weir bodies. Overflows across dam crests. Special types of overflows.
11. Loading of hydrotechnical facilities, Wind waves. Impacts of leaking water. Soil and rock pressure loads. Flows of statistic impacts of ice on hydrotechnical facilities. Loads caused by seismic activities.
12. Calculation of water leakage through dam bodies and subsoil. Homogeneous dam on impermeable subsoil. Leakage through the homogeneous dam without drainage. Homogeneous dam with drainage. Earth embankment with medium soil sealing - calculation of total leakage.
13. Static assessment of earth dams. Non-cohesive soil (slope without water, water leaking into slopes, water leaking in a parallel way with a slope). Cohesive soil.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Horský, O., Bláha, P.: The Application of Engineering Geology to Dam Construction, Or, What Experience Has Thaught Us. Repronis, 2011, 296p. ISBN 9788073292782.
BROŽA, V. a L. SATRAPA. Hydrotechnické stavby 2 - Přehrady. Praha: ES ČVUT, 2007
MEDŘICKÝ, V. Hydrotechnické stavby 2 - Vodní cesty. Praha: ES ČVUT, 2007
BROŽA, V. a L. SATRAPA. Hydrotechnické stavby 10. Praha: ES ČVUT, 1997
VÁCLAVÍK, V. Hydraulic engineering works. Ostrava 2007. ISBN 978-80-248-1659-3
Recommended Reading:
Chris Oxlade: Dams. Heinemann Library, 2005, 32p.
Lynn M. Stone: DAMS. Rourke Publishing Group, 2001, 48p.
SABU, Thomas, Vasudeo Rane AJAY, VK ABITHA, Kanny KRISHNAN a Dutta AASTHA. Hydraulic Rubber Dam : An Effective Water Management Technology. Norwich, United States: William Andrew Publishing, 2018. ISBN 9780128122105.
TOMAN, M. Hydrotechnické stavby I, II – technické a provozní parametry českých a slovenských vodních děl (1975 – 1995). Praha: ES ČVUT, 1991, 1993
BROŽA, V. a SATRAPA, L. Hydrotechnické stavby 10. Přehrady. Praha: ES ČVUT Praha, 2000.
ČIHÁK, F. a V. MEDŘICKÝ. Hydrotechnické stavby 20. Navrhování jezů. Praha: ES ČVUT Praha, 2001
KITE, P. L. Building the Three Gorges Dam. Raintree, 2011. ISBN 978-1406217568
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 34