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
CE12. Capacidad para caracterizar, proyectar, integrar y construir adecuadamente las diferentes actuaciones de ingeniería en los sistemas fluviales.
Al termino de esta enseñanza el alumnado debe ser capaz de:
DRA1 Distinguir las características que definen la hidromorfología de un cauce fluvial en función de su geometría, su caudal dominante, su caudal ecológico, así como las características que definen un Ecosistema Fluvial, su equilibrio de fondo y las características de los sedimentos que lo componen.
DRA2 Determinar la caracterización hidráulica de un río, incluyendo el fenómeno de acorazamiento y las variaciones de la resistencia al flujo. Determinar la caracterización hidromorfológica de las masas de agua de un río.
DRA3 Evaluar las ecuaciones de transporte de sedimentos (Mecánica del transporte de sedimentos) distinguiendo entre las ecuaciones de: - inicio de movimiento; - transporte de fondo y en suspensión; - sedimentación.
DRA4 Conocer las pautas de diseño y cálculo de las técnicas de estabilización, restauración, renaturalización y encauzamiento de cauces fluviales.
DRA5 Resolver distintos problemas de hidráulica fluvial en zonas torrenciales a partir de las diversas formulaciones existentes a disposición de los alumnos. Estudio de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
DRA6 Utilizar los recursos de información disponibles tales como bases de datos, sistemas de información geográfica, etc., filtrando y evaluando la calidad de las fuentes.
Morfología fluvial: geometría hidráulica y caudal dominante. Características de los torrentes, ramblas, llanuras de inundación, deltas y estuarios. Equilibrio de fondo. Ecosistema fluvial. Hidráulica fluvial: Principio de movimiento. Acorazamiento. Clasificación del transporte de sedimentos. Mecánica del transporte de sedimentos. Ecuaciones de transporte de fondo y fondo en suspensión. Hidráulica torrencial. Problemas de erosión y sedimentación. Restauración fluvial. Renaturalización fluvial. Encauzamientos. Hidráulica de puentes.
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.
Relación con otras asignaturas del plan de estudios: La asignatura forma parte del itinerario optativo de "Hidráulica, Medio Ambiente y Energía" y está relacionada con asignaturas básicas del Grado en Ingeniería Civil como Hidráulica Fluvial, Hidroecología, planificación y Gestión de Recursos Hídricos, Obras Hidráulicas y Aprovechamientos Hidráulicos. Del mismo modo la asignatura de Flujo en Lámina Libre y Presas y Embalses son necesarias para la comprensión de los conceptos aquí desarrollados. Conocimientos previos recomendados: Se recomienda haber aprobado asignaturas como Flujo en Lámina Libre y Presas y Embalses. Cada estudiante tiene que elegir y cursar un itinerario optativo de 16.5 ECTS, agrupados en 3 bloques de 4 asignaturas por temáticas: 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 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), Intersección y enlaces en redes viarias (4.5 ECTS), Planificación y gestión territorial (3 ECTS), Ingeniería paisajística, territorial y de la planificación ambiental (4.5 ECTS). Bloque de Hidráulica, Medio Ambiente y Energía (16.5 ECTS). Energía hidroeléctrica, eólica y mareomotriz (4.5 ECTS), Modelos numéricos de zonas inundables (3 ECTS), Modelización y simulación de estructuras hidráulicas (4.5 ECTS), Ingeniería fluvial (4.5 ECTS).
Class in conventional classroom: theory, problems, case studies, seminars, etc.
Lecture presented by the teacher, with resolution of doubts raised by the students and demonstrative problem solved 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.
29
100
Class in laboratory: practical classes / internships
Laboratory and classroom practice to establish and study the physical properties of water with sediments.
6
100
Class in the field or open classroom (technical visits, lectures, 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.
6
100
Class in a computer classroom: practical classes / internships
Class with exercises based on real cases using computer programmes.
2
100
Assessment activities (continuous assessment system)
Summative assessment activities will be carried out throughout the course. These will consist of various exercises and tests carried out in class.
2
100
Assessment activities (final assessment system)
There will be two mid-term exams as well as a final exam.
2
100
Tutorials
Resolution of doubts in individual or group tutorials.
4
50
Student work: study or individual or group work
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.
84
0
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. 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.
The ability to apply theoretical concepts to solve theoretical concepts to solve basic exercises basic exercises of the discipline. The exercises will will allow the application of the concepts of hydraulics and engineering concepts seen in the course.
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.
The approximation of the results obtained by means of the calculations performed will be evaluated.
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
The attendance to the practical will be marked .
Accounts for the learning outcome 6.
The quality of the data collected will be evaluated.
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. 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.
The ability to apply theoretical concepts to solve theoretical concepts to solve basic exercises basic exercises of the discipline. The exercises will will allow the application of the concepts of hydraulics and engineering concepts seen in the course.
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.
The approximation of the results obtained by means of the calculations performed will be evaluated.
30 %
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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Editorial: UPC
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9788483019009
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