Course detail

Selected Chapters of Hydrotechnics

FAST-NRA013Acad. year: 2025/2026

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST)

Entry knowledge

Courses related to water management - hydraulics, hydrology, structure foundation, earth mechanics, hydrotechnical structures, realization of structures

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Studends gain more detailed knowledge of problems of hydrotechnical structures, which follows the information of bachelor study program of Civil engineeering.
Knowledge of problems in hydrotechnical structures, which follows the information of bachelor study program of Civil engineeering.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIV Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Aleš Dráb, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1.–3. Assessment of stability of weirs and dams and their underlay.
  • 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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Aleš Dráb, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. River bed stabilization, boulder chutes.
  • 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.