2024
Maintenance and Conservation of Storage and Regulation Infrastructures
Name: Maintenance and Conservation of Storage and Regulation Infrastructures
Code: ERU14247O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Engenharia Hidráulica
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
Optional
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The course program focuses on the essential aspects related to storage and regulation hydraulic works, providing criteria for the dimensioning, assessment, construction and exploitation of storage and regulation infrastructures.The content of the UC focus on:
• Knowledge of civil works for the storage and energy use of water.
• Identification of the different elements that constitute a dam, based on the understanding of their functionality.
• Knowledge of the the different steps involved in the development of the project and dimensioning of a dam.
• Knowledge of operation, maintenance and conservation activities, with particular emphasis on monitoring and safety tasks.
The skills to be developed by the students focus on the knowledge and capacity to project and dimensioning hydraulic works and infrastructures, and planning and management of surface and subsurface hydraulic resources.
• Knowledge of civil works for the storage and energy use of water.
• Identification of the different elements that constitute a dam, based on the understanding of their functionality.
• Knowledge of the the different steps involved in the development of the project and dimensioning of a dam.
• Knowledge of operation, maintenance and conservation activities, with particular emphasis on monitoring and safety tasks.
The skills to be developed by the students focus on the knowledge and capacity to project and dimensioning hydraulic works and infrastructures, and planning and management of surface and subsurface hydraulic resources.
Contents
1. Introduction, general questions and historical evolution of dams
2. Legislative framework: regulations, technical guides and previous studies
3. Analysis of typologies and loads estimation
Seminar: Checking the stability of concrete and earth dams
4. Drainage structures and spillways. Flood studies and evaluation of hydrological safety.
5. Reservoir operation rules, conservation and action in emergency situations
6. Safety of dams and reservoirs, technical documents and auscultation
Seminar: Evaluation of lamination strategies and procedures
2. Legislative framework: regulations, technical guides and previous studies
3. Analysis of typologies and loads estimation
Seminar: Checking the stability of concrete and earth dams
4. Drainage structures and spillways. Flood studies and evaluation of hydrological safety.
5. Reservoir operation rules, conservation and action in emergency situations
6. Safety of dams and reservoirs, technical documents and auscultation
Seminar: Evaluation of lamination strategies and procedures
Teaching Methods
Masterclasses combined with practical exercises for the application of the content of each topic carried out during the proposed seminars. The evaluation will be carried out through submitting activities (50%) and theoretical test (50%).
