- Docente: Armando Brath
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Armando Brath (Modulo 1) Armando Brath (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Civil Engineering (cod. 0930)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Environmental Engineering (cod. 8894)
Learning outcomes
The course presents a comprehensive panorama of hydraulic infrastructures for civil and environmental engineering. The course also discusses the advanced design procedures of structural (and non structural) measures for hydrological risk mitigation.
Course contents
Open channel hydraulics:
Gradually varied flow profiles in uniform channels
(examples of rapidly varied flows). Flood propagation models.
Hydraulics of sediment
transport:
Particles and sediments' characteristics. Incipient motion
criteria. Bed instability and bed-forms. Bed-load transport and
suspended load transport. Bed, suspended and total load functions.
Regime criteria in open channels with loose and movable
boundaries.
Hydrologic and flood risk
mitigation:
Mountain streams: computation of equilibrium slope; weirs,
check dams and debris dams; brushes, embankments, side walls. Flood
management and mitigation: structural (e.g., flood control works
such as levees, design cross-section, dams, embankments, sluices,
bank revetments, pumping stations and drainage systems) and
non-structural (e.g., flood forecasting and early warning
procedures, zoning and floodplain management) flood mitigation
measures.
Introductory concepts on streamflow regimes and surface water-resources management:
Engineering works (dams, weirs, etc.). Derivation and drainage systems.
Readings/Bibliography
Reference textbooks for deepening the preparation:
-U. Maione e A. Brath, La sistemazione dei corsi d'acqua naturali, Ed. BIOS;
-U. Maione e A. Brath, Moderni criteri di sistemazione degli alvei fluviali, Ed. BIOS;
-U. Maione e A. Brath, La difesa idraulica del territorio, Ed. BIOS;
-U. Maione, Appunti di Idrologia 3: Le piene fluviali, La Goliardica Pavese;
-D. Citrini e G. Noseda, Idraulica, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana.
Teaching methods
Classes and practical assignments.
Assessment methods
Oral and/or written exam
Teaching tools
Informative course notes provided during the course.
Office hours
See the website of Armando Brath