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Course code: IISS20268o12
Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Earth structures in hydrotechnics
Major: Environmental Engineering
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Henryk Orzeszyna
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge Student has knowledge about hydro technical terrestrial buildings; knows the basic technical, environmental and economic conditions of hydro technical terrestrial buildings location and general knowledge of the problems connected with their implementation; he knows types of water damming constructions and their work, design and construction, places of potential risks; he can evaluate the dam or shaft base; can estimate soil to build individual elements. Skills Student can design hydro technical terrestrial buildings; knows how to calculate filtration through the substrate and dam corps; knows how to assess the stability of the construction; he can assess the physical and mechanical properties of soil for possibility of their incorporation into the various elements of the building; he can determine the class of the various hydraulic structures; can design necessary seal and strengthening; knows the principles of drainage design and can properly deploy control and measurement devices.

Competences: Student understands importance of properly located and designed hydro technical constructions and their role in water management; he has a sense of responsibility for the reliable operation of constructions designed by him.

Prerequisites: Hydrogeology, Soil mechanics.

Course content: Types of damming constructions, principles of location and working, principles of design and execution, potential risks places. Dam or shaft substrate rating. Soil to build individual elements. Construction security state. Filtration and stability calculating methods.

Recommended literature: Czyżewski K. i in., 1973: Zapory ziemne. Arkady, Warszawa.
Fall R. i in., 1992: Geotechnical engineering of embankment dams. A.A. Balkema /Rotterdam/ Brookfield. Guide for the design of river dikes. Volume 1. TAW 1991.
Pavel Peter, 1982: Canal and river levees. Elsevier.
Pr. zb. pod red. W. Mioduszewskiego, 1992: Projektowanie, modernizacja i technologia wykonania wałów przeciwpowodziowych w trudnych warunkach geotechnicznych. IMUZ Falenty.
Wesołowski A. i in., 2000: Geosyntetyki w konstrukcjach inżynierskich. SGGW Warszawa.
Wiłun Z., 2005: Zarys geotechniki. WKŁ, Warszawa.
Vischer D.C., Hager W.H., 1997: Dam hydraulics. Wiley.


Assessment methods: project, 1 test, written exam

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