Name: RIVER ENGINEERING
Code: 213101020
Type: Elective
ECTS: 4.5
Length of subject: Per term
Semester and course: 2nd Year - Second term
Speciality:
Language: English
Mode of study: On-site class
Lecturer data: GARCÍA BERMEJO, JUAN TOMÁS
Knowledge area: Ingeniería Hidráulica
Department: Ingeniería Minera y Civil
Telephone: 968327026
Email: juan.gbermejo@upct.es
Office hours and location:
lunes - 12:00 / 14:00
EDIFICIO DE LA ETSINO Y LA EICM, planta 1, Despacho Anexo de Minas
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miércoles - 16:00 / 18:00
EDIFICIO DE LA ETSINO Y LA EICM, planta 1, Despacho Anexo de Minas
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Qualifications/Degrees:
PhD in PhD. in Civil Engineering in Technical Univeristy of CArtagena from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (SPAIN) - 2016
Academic rank in UPCT: Profesor Contratado Doctor
Number of five-year periods: 2
Number of six-year periods: 1 de investigación
Curriculum Vitae: Full Profile
[CB8 ]. Students are required to be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
[G01 ]. Scientific-technical and methodological training for the continuous recycling of knowledge and the exercise of professional functions of advice, analysis, design, calculation, project, planning, management, construction, maintenance, conservation and exploitation in the fields of civil engineering.
[G09 ]. Ability to plan and manage water and energy resources, including the integral management of the water cycle.
[G15 ]. Capacity to evaluate and environmentally condition the infrastructure works in projects, construction, restoration and conservation.
La asignatura optativa Ingeniería fluvial desarrolla la competencia "Capacidad para caracterizar, proyectar, integrar y construir adecuadamente las diferentes actuaciones de ingeniería en los sistemas fluviales".
Los alumnos tienen que cursar 16,5 ECTS optativos que están agrupados en 3 bloques de 4 asignaturas por temáticas: "Hidráulica, Medio Ambiente y Energía", "Construcción" y "Transportes, Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio".
Cada alumno tiene que elegir un bloque.
Bloque de Hidráulica, Medio Ambiente y Energía (16,5 ECTS)Energía hidroeléctrica, eólica y mareomotriz (4.5 ECTS), Análisis de Sistemas Hidráulicos e Hidrológicos (3 ECTS), Modelización y Simulación de Estructuras
Hidráulicas (4,5 ECTS), Ingeniería Fluvial (4,5 ECTS)
Bloque de Construcción (16,5 ECTS)
Puentes (4,5 ECTS), Tipología Estructural y Constructiva (4,5 ECTS), Procedimientos especiales de Cimentación (4,5 ECTS), Aplicaciones del método de los elementos finitos en Ingeniería Estructural (3 ECTS)
Bloque de Transportes, Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio (16,5 ECTS)
Infraestructuras y Servicios Urbanos (4,5 ECTS), Intersecciones y enlaces en redes viarias (4,5 ECTS), Planificación y Gestión Territorial (3 ECTS), Ingeniería Paisajística (4,5 ECTS)
[T07 ]. Using information resources responsibly
At the end of the course the students will be able to:
1. Know and be able to distinguish the characteristics that define the Morphology of a riverbed according to its geometry, its dominant flow. Distinguish and calculate the flow rates through river channels. Knowing and being distinguish the characteristics that define a river ecosystem, its background equilibrium and the characteristics of its sediments of which it is composed.
2. Application of the equations of motion of a fluid in a river (River Hydraulics). To be able to
to hydraulically characterise a river. To know the phenomenon of armouring and the variations in resistance to flow.
3. Application of the sediment transport equations (Mechanics of sediment transport) distinguishing between the equations of: - initiation of movement; - bottom and suspended transport; - sedimentation. Learning to assess the stability and evolution of a river channel riverbed stability and evolution. Erosion phenomena
4. Know the design guidelines and calculation of the most commonly used stabilisation, restoration and channelling techniques most commonly used today. Acquire knowledge of the stability of bridge piers. Bridge Hydraulics.
5. Solve different problems of river hydraulics in torrential areas using the various formulations available to students.
6. Locate, analyse and select the information required to develop their professional/research activity.
River morphology: hydraulic geometry and dominant flow. Characteristics of torrents, wadis, flood plains, deltas and estuaries. Bottom equilibrium. River ecosystem. River hydraulics: Principle of movement. Armouring. Classification of sediment transport. Mechanics of sediment transport Equations of bed and suspended-bed transport equations Torrential hydraulics Erosion and sedimentation problems Channelling. Bridge hydraulics.
Module I. Fluvial Morphology and Introduction to Fluvial Hydraulics
Unit 1. Introduction. Rivers. River Morphology. Definition of dominant flows in the fluvial channel.
Unit 2. River hydraulics. Principles of Movement. Resistance to flow.
Unit 3. Initiation of movement
Unit 4. Characteristics of solids
Module II. Sediment transport mechanics
Unit 5. Introduction to the mechanics of sediment transport. Application of sediment transport equations. Erosion and sedimentation phenomena in watercourses.
Module III. Erosion processes on a basin scale
Unit 6. Erosion in basins
Module IV. River Engineering
Unit 7. River Stabilisation. Design and calculation of channelling actions, stabilisation and hydrological corrections
Unit 8. Hydraulics of Bridges
Module V. Fluvial Ecosystems
Unit 9. River Restoration
Unit 10. Modelling of biological processes in fluvial systems
Flow resistance. Computer practice
Students must interpret the flow resistance equations in sand and gravel rivers according to the formulations seen in class. They should calculate roughness coefficients for the types of streams and flows indicated in class
Practical at hydraulics laboratory
The Initiation of Movement and its relationship with the Shields abacus will be observed experimentally in the laboratory.
Practice in the field. Granulometric characterization of solids in a riverbed
The students, together with the lecturer, will go to the field to take samples of the solids existing at the bottom of an ephemeral riverbed for their later analysis in the laboratory and thus characterize different granulometric curves.
Practice in the computer room. Calculation of sediment transport in riverbeds
Students should apply different sediment transport formulations for various types of rivers with different characteristics.
Practice in a computer classroom for river management.
Students will apply the principles of river engineering for the protection and channelling of various sections of urban rivers.
Practice in the computer room. Modelling of biological processes in rivers.
The students will use different software to model the biological and chemical processes in the water of a river in different cases such as a discharge with a high organic load by studying the variation of dissolved oxygen in water.
Promoting the continuous improvement of working and study conditions of the entire university community is one the basic principles and goals of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Such commitment to prevention and the responsibilities arising from it concern all realms of the university: governing bodies, management team, teaching and research staff, administrative and service staff and students. The UPCT Service of Occupational Hazards (Servicio de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales de la UPCT) has published a "Risk Prevention Manual for new students" (Manual de acogida al estudiante en materia de prevención de riesgos), which may be downloaded from the e-learning platform ("Aula Virtual"), with instructions and recommendations on how to act properly, from the point of view of prevention (safety, ergonomics, etc.), when developing any type of activity at the University. You will also find recommendations on how to proceed in an emergency or if an incident occurs. Particularly when carrying out training practices in laboratories, workshops or field work, you must follow all your teacher's instructions, because he/she is the person responsible for your safety and health during practice performance. Feel free to ask any questions you may have and do not put your safety or that of your classmates at risk.
Theory classes, problems and/or resolution of practical cases in the classroom.
Lecture presented by the teacher, with resolution of doubts raised by the students and demonstrative problem solving by the teacher.
Resolution of river morphology questions and other general and introductory topics related with river engineering. Lecturer will put several questions related to river morphology that the student will have to solve on the blackboard. Related to Unit 1, the Sustainable Development Goals that apply to the subject are listed and described with a special focus on SDG 15 on Terrestrial Ecosystem Life.
Exercises enunciated in the classroom for the review of the acomplishment fo the SDG 15 related with river engineering.
Students will review various channelling actions carried out by different administrations over the years in different parts of the national territory, analysing, through the application of the concepts seen in the course and from the perspective of the SDGs, to what extent these channelling actions comply with SDG 15 on the Life of Terrestrial Ecosystems.
Framed as a marking practice within the subject, students will present a report evaluating, through the fulfilment of a series of criteria presented in the theory part, how the revised project complies with SDG 15.
The work is submitted for review and will be presented by the student(s) in the group to the teacher and their peers. The group members have to answer the questions posed by their peers and the teacher.
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100
Computer practice.
Class with exercises based on real cases using computer programmes.
4
100
Laboratory and/or field practice.
Laboratory and classroom practice to establish and study the physical properties of water with sediments.
6
100
Technical visits, Seminars, Conferences, Conferences, etc.
Whenever sanitary conditions permit, various streambeds and gullies will be visited. In addition, various topical issues related to current topics in fluvial engineering will be addressed and external speakers will be invited to participate.
3
100
Continuous assessment activities.
Summative assessment activities will be carried out throughout the course. These will consist of various exercises and tests carried out in class.
6
100
Final assessment activities.
There will be two mid-term exams as well as a final exam.
13
100
Study and work of the student (individual and/or teamwork) including, if necessary, handling of information in other languages.
The students will carry out individual works in relation to the units. Some of these will be at pre-project level on the definition for construction of a river restoration or channelling intervention. This work must be presented in the proposed deadline and form and must be defended in the presence of the rest of the students of the course.
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0
Tutorials.
Resolution of doubts in individual or group tutorials.
5
50
Exam/s (theory and/or practice).
Two partial eliminatory exams will be held: first for the Module I, II and III; and the second for the Module IV and V. Maximum mark: 3 points per each part. Each exam will be composed of 15 test questions with multiple selection answers and two exercises similar to those solved in the lectures. Studennts can use all the materials available for the course including laptop or computer to help with the calculations and not acces to the internet or any external communication is allowed. First exam evaluates the learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 5. Second exam evaluates the 4 and 5.
69 %
Individual assignments and/or presentations.
Resolution and delivery of exercises and practical cases proposed , on the date and in the format indicated (round 10 deliverables throughout the course). These will be associtated to the exercises in the classroom ((leraning outcome 1 and 5), the computer practices (leraning outcome 2, 3 and 5), the field visits and works (lerning outcome 1), and the laboratory practices (learning outcome 1 and 2) and the classroom assesments (learning outcome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6). Maximum grade: 3.0 points.
30 %
Team assignments and/or presentations.
Individual work that will be presented including all calculations and will be evaluated with the maximum mark of three points. Works will also be presented to the rest of the students of the course.
0 %
Other evaluation activities oriented to student follow-up (active participation, etc.).
The attendance to the practical will be marked and the knowledge acquired in the final exam of the subject will be evaluated. Maximum mark: 0.20 points (learning outcome 1 and 6).
1 %
Exam/s (theory and/or practice).
Two partial eliminatory exams will be held: first for the Module I, II and III; and the second for the Module IV and V. Maximum mark: 3 points per each part. Each exam will be composed of 15 test questions with multiple selection answers and two exercises similar to those solved in the lectures. Studennts can use all the materials available for the course including laptop or computer to help with the calculations and not acces to the internet or any external communication is allowed. First exam evaluates the learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 5. Second exam evaluates the 4 and 5.
70 %
Individual assignments and/or presentations.
Resolution and delivery of exercises and practical cases proposed , on the date and in the format indicated (round 10 deliverables throughout the course). These will be associtated to the exercises in the classroom ((leraning outcome 1 and 5), the computer practices (leraning outcome 2, 3 and 5), the field visits and works (lerning outcome 1), and the laboratory practices (learning outcome 1 and 2) and the classroom assesments (learning outcome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6). Maximum grade: 3.0 points.
30 %
Team assignments and/or presentations.
Individual work that will be presented including all calculations and will be evaluated with the maximum mark of three points. Works will also be presented to the rest of the students of the course.
0 %
Other evaluation activities oriented to student follow-up (active participation, etc.).
The attendance to the practical will be marked and the knowledge acquired in the final exam of the subject will be evaluated. Maximum mark: 0.20 points.
0 %
In order to pass the course, an essential requirement is to obtain a mark equal to or higher than 5 according to the equation Practical and exercise reports mark (30%) + (first part mark + second part mark) (70%). In order to be able to do the sum and to be able to compensate, it will be necessary to obtain at least a mark higher than 40% in each of the two parts.
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