Overview
Lecturer
Dorin Victor Popa
Seminar tutor
Dorin Victor Popa
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Electronic engineering and telecommunications
Field of study
Applied Electronics
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Aims
Developing the capacity for knowing and understanding the basic hydro-technical facilities concepts.
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Course contents
1. General considerations;
2. Execution of earthworks in the drainage channels and collectors;
3. Dams of local materials;
4. Water leakage through and under earth dams;
5. Floods prevention and control;
6. Channel processes;
7. Accumulation works to mitigate flood waves;
8. Calculation of the gravity dams;
9. Setting the body and the comber of the rock-fill dams;
10. Hydraulic energy and power.
Learning outcomes
- Understanding and knowing the basics of design, construction and operation of hydro-technical facilities and structures;
- Knowing and understanding the types of hydro-technical facilities and structures;
- developing the skills for design, construction and operation of hydro-technical facilities and structures;
- Knowing and understanding the calculation method of the gravity dams and of their design;
- developing skills for determining the loads acting on the arch dams;
- developing the ability to check the stability of the dam seepage;
- Understanding and calculating the seepage under dams.
Assessment
Written test examination - 40%, Verification during the semester- 60%.
Recommended reading
• Popovici, A., Popescu, C., Baraje pentru acumulari de apa, , vol. II, Tehnica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002
• Popovici, A., Popescu, C., Baraje pentru acumulari de apa, vol. I, Tehnica Publishing House, Bucharest, 1992
• Priscu, R., Constructii hidrotehnice, vol. I, II, Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1993
• Raileanu, P., et al.., Fundatii, vol. I, II, Rotaprint Publishing House, IP Iasi,1992
• Nicolau, C., et al., Executarea construcţiilor hidrotehnice pentru lucrări de imbunatatiri funciare, CERES Publishing House, Bucharest, 1977;