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Course code: IWS10234o14
Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Rivers engineering
Major: Water Engineering and Managment
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Radosław Stodolak
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: He knows the importance and function of rivers in nature and the economy, and has knowledge about the processes and conditions of stability discharge riverbeds. He known methods for determining the parameters bows, inheritances and regulatory parameters cross the river, know the rules of drafting technical flood control and environmentally friendly solutions. He can draw up a draft regulation of the river, is able to guess the parameters cross-section and longitudinal decline, providing the required channel bandwidth and stability, taking into account traffic bed material, can design technical and biological insurance riverbeds mountain and lowland and regulatory structures: thresholds, steps, and develop debrisdam project.

Competences: It has a sense of responsibility for the natural environment and the rational management of river basins.

Prerequisites: hydrology, hydraulics.

Course content: The meaning and function of rivers. The morphological characteristics. Brash river and the characteristics of fluvial processes of water flow and sediment transport. Trailing debris flow and entrained, particle size distribution, the variation in the longitudinal profile. The balance of river channels, methods of assessing the balance. Inventory work on the rivers. Designing cross the river and regulatory route. Materials and building components. Strengthening of technical and biotechnical trough. Buildings and regulatory systems. Adjusting streams using thresholds, steps and debrisdam. Dikes and structures Shaft. Standard requirements, methods of design

Recommended literature: 1. Inżynieria ekologiczna w budownictwie wodnym i ziemnym. BegemannW, Schiechtl H, 1999. 2. Regulacja rzek i potoków: J. Wołoszyn, W. Czamara, R. Eliasiewicz, J. Krężel; AWR 1994. 3. Podstawy projektowania zabudowy potoków górskich: J. Ratomski, P.K. Kraków 2000. 4. Przyjazne naturze kształtowanie rzek i potoków, Praca zbiorowa, Wrocław-Kr.2006. 5. Żelazo J, Popek Z.: Podstawy renaturyzacji rzek, SGGW, Warszawa 2002r.

Assessment methods: completion of the project, two colloquia, written exam.

Comment: Lecture 1: The importance and function of rivers Lecture 2: The morphological characteristics of the river. Characteristics of fluvial processes of water flow and sediment transport Lecture 3: Conditions for movement of water and sediment in the river bed Lecture 4: Factors affecting the resistance to flow in the river beds. Hydraulic calculations riverbeds. Lecture 5: Requirements for specific business needs and protection against flooding. Lecture 6: The natural qualities of the rivers and their relationship with the state trough. Lecture 7 Inventory work, measuring and preparation for conception and development projects rivers. Lecture 8: Keeping rivers. Lecture 9: Designing regulatory work - technical regulation and environmentally friendly solutions. Lecture 10: Installation mountain streams Lecture 11 Materials and components used in the engineering and construction of river Lecture 12: Flood protection - active and passive protection measures Lecture 13 Embankments of rivers. Advantages and disadvantages. Construction of the shaft. Lecture 14 Restoration and revitalization of rivers Lecture 15 Principles of operation and maintenance of regulatory structures, conservation and cultivation of biotech buildings. The type and extent of exercise: exercise design.