After this course, the student is able to:
- Explain the types, principles and objectives of flood defenses and their functioning; construction aspects, failure mechanisms and safety assessment in their societal context;
- Perform a safety assessment and make a conceptual design of flood defense systems;
- To apply (basics of) relevant tools and calculation methods for design and safety assessment.
- Design solutions to reinforce an unsafe flood defence and evaluate their design
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This course focuses on the hydraulic engineering of water works. Hydraulic engineering contains the knowledge on the design, construction and maintenance of works and systems that are designed in answer to community needs for infrastructure that has to deal with water in all kind of ways. The goal of the course is in short: (1) to get acquainted with various hydraulic constructions, (2) to know what the use of the hydraulic constructions is, (3) to understand how they are designed, constructed and maintained. Using dikes and hydraulic structures as examples, materials, failure mechanisms and calculations techniques will be introduced. Furthermore, the design and construction of several special structures will be introduced, such as tunnels, storm surge barriers and harbors. The focus of the course is on the understanding and computation of the technical aspects of flood defenses.
This course is assessed by means of 2 group assignments (60%) and an individual written exam (40%). All the assessments require a sufficient grade (>5.5) in order to succeed this course.
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