Hydraulics 1

ENV2103

Level 6

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15 Credits

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0.125 EFTS

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Delivery type:

Online

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Course duration: 17 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 9 hours per week

Workload

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Number of credits x 10, divided by the number of teaching weeks of the course.

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Prerequisites

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- CIV1501 Engineering Statics
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This course will introduce you to problems encountered by hydraulic engineers. It will give you a grounding in fluid statics, steady uniform and non-uniform incompressible flow in pipelines and channels, pumped systems, culvert hydraulics and flow measurement.

What you will learn

When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:

describe the relevant properties of fluids
calculate pressures and forces on floating and immersed bodies
undertake simple stability analyses for small gravity dams or weirs
determine the rolling stability of a prismatic floating body
analyse and design simple pipelines for steady flow
select a pump to meet a specified duty
match a pump to a pipeline system and determine the operating point of a pump
analyse pump and pipeline systems involving single and multiple pumps
solve simple steady uniform and non-uniform open channel flow problems
design rigid boundary channels
classify gradually varied flow profiles
apply the concepts of specific energy and specific force in open channel flow
design pipe and box culverts
estimate the head discharge relationship for common flow measuring devices.

Assessment

Assessment for this course is:

30% internally assessed
70% exam.

For more information about exams, including a full list of exam times see our exam information.

Exams

Equipment

You need to have a scientific calculator that is non-programmable and does not hold textual information or display graphs.

Textbooks

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Hydraulics 1

ENV2103

This course will introduce you to problems encountered by hydraulic engineers. It will give you a grounding in fluid statics, steady uniform and non-uniform incompressible flow in pipelines and channels, pumped systems, culvert hydraulics and flow measurement.

What you will learn

Assessment

Equipment

Textbooks

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How to enrol

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