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Drainage and Landscape Protection
FAST-BS005Acad. year: 2022/2023
Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water sources protection, water courses protection
History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and ground water runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
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2. Modelling of erosion processes - classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins
3.Assessment of erosion hazard level - complex research and analysis of a watershed
4. Design of erosion control measures - classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
5. Torrens control - flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout
6. Determination of surface runoff parameters - simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds
7. Wind erosion - analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures
8. Drainage - reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil
9. Modelling of water movement in soil - classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff
10. Main drainage facilities - classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities
11. Detailed drainage facility - classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage
12. Special drainage - sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema
13. Influence of drainage on the landscape.
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Holý M, a kol - Eroze a životní prostředí, ČVUT Praha 1998 (CS)
Janeček, M., a kol. (2012). Ochrana zemědělské půdy před erozí. Metodika PEO. Praha: Powerprint. ISBN 978-80-87415-42-9.. (CS)
Morgan, R.P.C. Soil Erosion and Conservation. Third Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2005, 304 p. ISBN 1-4051-1781-8 (EN)
Toy, T.J., Foster, G.R. a Renard, K.G. Soil erosion: processes, prediction, measurement and control. New York: Wiley, 2002, 352 p. ISBN 0-471-38369-4. (EN)
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