OVERVIEW

The course is offered, optionally, in the 3rd year / second semester of the Bachelor's Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

It has as a pre-requisite to have acquired the basic content of the course of Hydraulics 1 and 2 subject to the 2nd year of the CL3 path

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides the basic knowledge to design hydraulic structures such as intake, conveyance and control structures including open-channel and pressure flow system. The course deals with the technical-engineering aspects together with the water management issue. The course provides the basic knowledge to design hydraulic structures such as intake, conveyance and control structures including open-channel and pressure flow system. The course deals with the technical-engineering aspects together with the water management issue.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The course provides the skills in designing intake, conveyance and control hydraulic structures both in terms of engineering/technical and management aspects.

TEACHING METHODS

The lectures are organized in about 35 hours of theory and in about 25 hours of practice

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Applied hydraulic transient in under pressure systems: transient regime (waterhammer phenomenon) in pumping stations and turbines, opening and closing of control valves, introduction to hydraulic turbines, transient regime with air chamber, tunnel–surge tank system. Reservoirs: Introduction to dam types – Weir spillways – Bottom-withdrawal spillways – Intake hydraulic structures – Weir dam profile –Energy dissipators in dam – Rules and security systems Control flow weir: types, design flow, exploitation curve, intake and control structures, design criteria.
Pipelines and Tunnels: types and design, static analysis (introduction to) Channel: types and design, covering.
Spillways and diversion works – Weir Spillway – Storage volume – Surge tank

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Hydraulic transients / Victor L. Streeter, E. Benjamin Wylie, 1967
• Meccanica dei fluidi : principi e applicazioni idrauliche / Enrico Marchi, Antonello Rubatta, 1981
• Costruzioni idrauliche / Arredi Filippo, 1980

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLO LA BARBERA (President)

ILARIA GNECCO

LUCA GIOVANNI LANZA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

II semester, end of February

Class schedule

HIDRAULIC CONSTRUCTIONS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Applied problems on the main topics of the course are foreseen. The students will draw up a report on an applied problem that will be discussed during the oral examination. The final oral examination consists in questions related to the topics presented during the course and mainly on the topics not included in four midterm exams; the final score will be weighted with the midterm ones.

Exam schedule