The main scope of the course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of complex water infrastructures design and water legislation; specifically, the course provides the fundamental skills for the design of sewer systems and hydraulic structures for flood defense in urban areas.
Hydraulic Infrastructure Design belongs to the three-year degree in Civil Engineering, whose aim is to prepare students in civil engineering by providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
Within such framework, Hydraulic Infrastructure Design aims at providing students with the basic knowledge and understanding about 1) water legislation; 2) fundamental schemes of sewer systems and hydraulic structures for flood defense in urban areas; 3) any kind of hydraulic structures for water control and pumping stations; 4) methods and models, including statistical approaches, for hydrologic analysis and hydraulic simulation for structure design; 5) basic computational tools for hydrologic analysis and infrastructure design; 6) how to organize and manage an engineering project; 7) methods to prepare project reports.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) determine fundamental criteria and restrictions for design; 2) perform statistical analysis and estimate the hydrological load acting on the structures (design quantities); 3) identify the most appropriate infrastructure solution for water disposal and sanitation; 4) design structure and infrastructure; 5) prepare project report and drawings.
Hydraulic Infrastructure Design belongs to the three-year degree in Civil Engineering, whose aim is to prepare students in civil engineering by providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
Within such framework, Hydraulic Infrastructure Design aims at providing students with the basic knowledge and understanding about 1) water legislation; 2) fundamental schemes of sewer systems and hydraulic structures for flood defense in urban areas; 3) any kind of hydraulic structures for water control and pumping stations; 4) methods and models, including statistical approaches, for hydrologic analysis and hydraulic simulation for structure design; 5) basic computational tools for hydrologic analysis and infrastructure design; 6) how to organize and manage an engineering project; 7) methods to prepare project reports.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) determine fundamental criteria and restrictions for design; 2) perform statistical analysis and estimate the hydrological load acting on the structures (design quantities); 3) identify the most appropriate infrastructure solution for water disposal and sanitation; 4) design structure and infrastructure; 5) prepare project report and drawings.
teacher profile teaching materials
A.A. 2019 - 2020
General description of a hydraulic work:
1 Legislation.
2 Preliminary, final and executive project.
3 Organization of the work,
reporting.
Design of hydraulic work: dam
1 Uses of water: drinking, irrigation, flood protection, hydro-electric and multiple use.
2 References to the necessary hydrological observations and methods for hydrological simulation.
3 Reservoir capacity (reservoir height-volume curve) and adjustment according to use.
4 Structural types of dams:
4.1 wall dams (gravity, buttress, arch),
4.2 embankment dams (earth-fill, rock-fill),
5 Sizing criteria (fundamental triangle, Creager-Scimemi profile).
6 Motions of filtration, siphoning, under thrust; half-measures in safety.
7 Accessory works (sizing):
7.1 safety overflows (spillways),
7.2 stilling basins,
7.3 drains (bottom and half bottom),
7.4 intake works.
8 Electricity production (related works).
Examples of numerical hydraulic models.
Design of hydraulic works.
List of adopted texts
A.A. 2019 - 2020
• Teacher's notes (Moodle).
• Hydraulic Infrastructures, Volume 1 - Hydrology and Water Resources. Author: Guido Calenda. Efesto Edizioni - Efesto Library - Via Corrado Segre, 11 Rome (March 2015).
Programme
Title: Hydraulic worksA.A. 2019 - 2020
General description of a hydraulic work:
1 Legislation.
2 Preliminary, final and executive project.
3 Organization of the work,
reporting.
Design of hydraulic work: dam
1 Uses of water: drinking, irrigation, flood protection, hydro-electric and multiple use.
2 References to the necessary hydrological observations and methods for hydrological simulation.
3 Reservoir capacity (reservoir height-volume curve) and adjustment according to use.
4 Structural types of dams:
4.1 wall dams (gravity, buttress, arch),
4.2 embankment dams (earth-fill, rock-fill),
5 Sizing criteria (fundamental triangle, Creager-Scimemi profile).
6 Motions of filtration, siphoning, under thrust; half-measures in safety.
7 Accessory works (sizing):
7.1 safety overflows (spillways),
7.2 stilling basins,
7.3 drains (bottom and half bottom),
7.4 intake works.
8 Electricity production (related works).
Examples of numerical hydraulic models.
Design of hydraulic works.
Core Documentation
549/5000List of adopted texts
A.A. 2019 - 2020
• Teacher's notes (Moodle).
• Hydraulic Infrastructures, Volume 1 - Hydrology and Water Resources. Author: Guido Calenda. Efesto Edizioni - Efesto Library - Via Corrado Segre, 11 Rome (March 2015).
Type of delivery of the course
The course consists of teorical lectures and a project (dam work), to be carried out within the duration of the course. During the course exercises dedicated to the realization of the project will be carried out. The project will therefore be carried out during the course, through assistance and verification of the project during the exercises carried out. The final reviews will consist in verifying the project carried out and will take place during the last lessons, when the project carried out will be evaluated by the teacher.Type of evaluation
The evaluation of the project contributes to the exam grade (for a portion of 50% of the final grade) and will remain valid even if the oral exam is not passed. Students who enroll in the current academic year and have already completed the project in the past academic years can opt: 1) for the maintenance of the program of the academic year of reference to the project already carried out (on which the oral exam will focus), 2) to make a new project (giving up the evaluation of the project already acquired), with an oral exam on the theory of the current academic year.