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AR30344: Civil engineering hydraulics 2

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2012/3
Follow this link for further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Follow this link for further information on credits Credits: 6
Follow this link for further information on unit levels Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Follow this link for further information on period slots Period: Semester 1
Follow this link for further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW 10%, EX 90%
Follow this link for further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment exam (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Follow this link for further information on unit content Description: Aims:
To give students a knowledge and understanding of channel flow as applied to civil engineering structures; water engineering applied to coastal, estuary and river engineering; public health engineering related to water supply, drainage and treatment.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit, the student should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
* design of a range of hydraulic structures.
* factors and relationships affecting groundwater, including replenishment, contamination and extraction.
* the main factors affecting the design of civil engineering works on coasts.
* factors influencing the design of hydro-electric and tidal power schemes.
* the main elements of water supply, sewage disposal, and surface water drainage systems.

Skills:
Intellectual skills
* Ability to apply the concepts and principles of fluid mechanics to the solution of engineering problems.
* To understand taught material and design issues and constraints.
Professional/Practical skills
* To deal with civil engineering hydraulic issues in a systematic yet creative way, and to communicate the conclusions clearly.
Transferable/key skills
* Ability to collect, analyse, synthesise and present technical information. To demonstrate communication and team working skills.

Content:
Hydraulic structures: dams, spillways, stilling basins, draw off towers, constant velocity channel, settlement tanks, flow dividers.
Water Engineering: Hydrology: hydrological cycle, meteorology, groundwater, surface run-off, analysis and forecasting.
Groundwater: wells, groundwater movement, groundwater contamination, dispersion and diffusion.
Coastal Engineering: Wave action, sediment transport, natural bays, defences and protection, coastal structures, wave power. River and canal engineering: optimum cross-section, unlined channels, alluvial channels, river modelling. Hydro-electric power, tidal power.
Public Health Engineering
Sanitation: Appliances, materials and components; sanitary incinerators and macerators; sanitary provision.
Discharge pipe systems, terminal velocities, pressure variations in stacks.
Water supply: sources of water, purity, hardness, water consumption, methods of treatment; corrosion, sludge, micro-organism control in water and steam systems, supply networks; supply installations, estimation of demand and sizing, simultaneous demand.
Drainage: foul and surface water drainage; materials and components; sizing and design; ventilation; sewage lifting.
Sewage disposal and drainage: water cycle, rainfall, run off, soak aways, sewerage systems, chemical and biological methods of treatment, small plants; problems with various effluents, septic tanks, disposal to rivers or sea outfalls.
Environmental risk assessment, pollution.
Follow this link for further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

AR30344 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
  • UEAR-AFB07 : BEng (hons) Civil Engineering (Full-time) - Year 3
  • UEAR-AKB07 : BEng (hons) Civil Engineering (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
  • UEAR-AFM03 : MEng (hons) Civil and Architectural Engineering (Full-time) - Year 3
  • UEAR-AKM03 : MEng (hons) Civil and Architectural Engineering (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
  • UEAR-AFM07 : MEng (hons) Civil Engineering (Full-time) - Year 3
  • UEAR-AKM07 : MEng (hons) Civil Engineering (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4

Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2012/13 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2013/14 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2012/13.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.