Hydraulic Structures

HOS-A1 Hydraulic Structures: 9ECs

• HOS-A-1 Ultimate Strength en Fatigue: 33%

• HOS-A-2 Design of Hydraulic Structures: 67%

The module enables students to produce a conceptual engineering design of common hydraulic structures, building on already acquired skills. Students learn to analyse a problem to formulate a design objective, which leads to a functional-spatial design. This is followed by a structural design where next to stability and strength checks, constructability plays a major role. The student further develops skills to motivate assumptions, methods and values of design parameters, using basic sketches. Hydraulic, geotechnical and structural aspects are addressed in coherence to understand the behaviour of these structures.

The content of the module contributes to the MUDE and Ethics learning lines.