| CODE | SPI3731 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Civil Engineering Hydraulics | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Spatial Planning and Infrastructure | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit aims at providing students with an understanding of how fluids and their properties have a direct bearing on civil engineering structures related to water provision and disposal, road storm water systems, sewage disposal, and other basic infrastructural systems using fluids. The unit addresses the following topics: the properties of fluids, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, energy losses, basic pipe design. It also introduces Engineering Hydrology. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims at introducing a basic appreciation of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, as a basis for civil engineering hydraulics and hydrology studies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the properties of fluids that have a bearing on their impact on structures containing them, or directing them from one position to another; - Understand the basic principles under-pinning hydrostatics and hydrodynamics; - Understand the principles of basic pipe design; - Define the elements of engineering hydrology. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Calculate the forces on, and determine the stability of, a structure in a fluid; - Calculate the forces exerted by a static, and by a moving, fluid body on a containing structure; - Calculate the energy losses in a distribution network; - Design a pipe system for a gravity flow system. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Douglas, J.F., Gasierek, J.M., and Swaffield, J.A., Fluid Mechanics, Longman Group, UK. - Evett, J.P. and Lui, Ching, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, USA. - Massey, J., Mechanics of Fluids, Chapman and Hall, UK. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Kevin Gatt |
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