Course detail
Selected Chapters of Hydrotechnics
FAST-CR003Acad. year: 2018/2019
Design and assessment of safety and stability of weirs, dams and objects related to usage of hydropower.
Sediment load motion and stability of stream bank sides.
Weir gates construction.
Design parameters of water turbines of water power plant working in different operation regimes.
Hydraulic solution and research of devices of WPP and navigation canals.
Loading, calculation of object local and overall safety.
New constructional solution, reconstructions, modernizations and intensification hydro technical objects utilization.
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Evaluatiuon: Individual questions evaluated by marks 1, 2, 3, 4.
Final classification:
points evaluation
13 – 17 A/1
18 – 21 B/1,5
22 – 28 C/2
29 – 35 D/2,5
36 – 43 E/3
od 44 F/4
In case of 5 or more questions evaluated worse than „4“ - final evaluation - F/4 – failed.
Course curriculum
4.-6. Determination of design parameters of water power plant turbines. Hydraulic research and solution of individual functional elements of WPP
7.-8. Sediment load motion and stability of stream bank sides.
9.-10. Design and calculation of gates of movable weirs.
11. Environmental project of structure, continuity and relationships of design and natural conditions - legislation. New program products for design of hydro technical structures.
12. Downflow baffles for oil products interception and measurements of discharges and volumes on streams and sewer systems.
13. Risks in water management, their determination and evaluation, influence on technical solution and economy of structure.
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Syllabus
4.-6. Determination of design parameters of water power plant turbines. Hydraulic research and solution of individual functional elements of WPP
7.-8. Sediment load motion and stability of stream bank sides.
9.-10. Design and calculation of gates of movable weirs.
11. Environmental project of structure, continuity and relationships of design and natural conditions - legislation. New program products for design of hydro technical structures.
12. Downflow baffles for oil products interception and measurements of discharges and volumes on streams and sewer systems.
13. Risks in water management, their determination and evaluation, influence on technical solution and economy of structure.
Exercise
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2. Design of boulder chute, calculus
3. Design of boulder chute, drawings
4. Wave runup on upstream face of the dam, freeboard.
5. Concrete dams, global stability
6. Embankment dams, global stability
7. Embankment dams, breaching due to overtopping
8. Theoretical background for bottom outlet hydraulics
9. Hydraulic calculation of bottom outlet, emptying of the reservoir.
10. The calculation of forces acting on the gate of bottom outlet
11. Design of weir movable gate.
12. Hydrotechnical calculation of weir rating curve.
13. Hydrotechnical calculation of weir rating curve at manipulation with gates.