BIW4-50: Ausgewählte Kapitel Wasserbau
Table of contents
- Module numbers
- Subject areas and lecturers
- Module description
- Qualification objectives
- Contents
- Teaching and learning methods
- Prerequisites for participation
- Applicability
- Requirements for the awarding of credit points:
- Credit points and grades
- Frequency of the module
- Workload
- Duration of the module
- Lecturer
- Date and location in the winter semester
- Documents for the course
Module numbers
BIW-D-BIW4-50, BIW-AD-BIW4-50
Subject areas and lecturers
Selected chapters in hydraulic engineering

Research Associate
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Ulf Helbig
Head of Hubert Engels Laboratory
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Office of the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering
Visiting address:
Beyer-Bau, Room 04-023 George-Bähr-Str. 1
01069 Dresden
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-9100
Office hours:
Please arrange a specific appointment in advance by e-mail.
Module description
Qualification objectives
Students are taught practice-relevant topics and how they are interlinked against the background of the holistic planning and realization of hydraulic engineering projects. Students are able to recognize and evaluate structural, functional and operational problems of hydraulic engineering facilities at an early stage. They have the competence to design goal-oriented and application-oriented solutions to problems, taking into account special structural requirements.
Contents
Contents are
- Design, construction methods and calculation of dam structures (dam walls, dams, dikes),
- Design of dams (technical regulations, design cases, probabilistics, FEM),
- Operating facilities for dams (spillways and extraction facilities),
- Operation of dams (dam failure, dam monitoring),
- Wear and rehabilitation (hydroabrasion, dam rehabilitation, concrete repair of hydraulic structures),
- Special construction methods (geosynthetics in hydraulic engineering, use of sheet piling),
- Hydraulic phenomena (aeration, cavitation, jet stream, pressure surge),
- Pumps, pumping stations and piping systems and
- Integrative planning and value management for hydraulic structures.
Teaching and learning methods
4 SWS lecture, 2 SWS exercise, self-study
Prerequisites for participation
In the Civil Engineering diploma program, the competencies to be acquired in the Dam and Hydropower Plants module are a prerequisite.
In the Civil Engineering postgraduate degree program, basic and advanced skills in dam and hydropower plant construction, such as those acquired in the above-mentioned module, are required.
Applicability
Civil Engineering
The module is a compulsory elective module in the Civil Engineering degree program.
The module is a compulsory elective module in the Diploma postgraduate course in Civil Engineering.
Requirements for the awarding of credit points:
Civil Engineering
Credit points are awarded if the module examination is passed. The module examination consists of a written examination lasting 90 minutes. The examination prerequisite is an exercise of 60 hours.
Credit points and grades
The module is worth 8 credit points.
The module grade corresponds to the grade of the examination.
Frequency of the module
The module is offered every academic year, starting in the winter semester.
Workload
The total workload is 240 hours.
Duration of the module
The module lasts two semesters.
Lecturer

Research Associate
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Ulf Helbig
Head of Hubert Engels Laboratory
Send encrypted email via the SecureMail portal (for TUD external users only).
Office of the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering
Visiting address:
Beyer-Bau, Room 04-023 George-Bähr-Str. 1
01069 Dresden
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-9100
Office hours:
Please arrange a specific appointment in advance by e-mail.
Date and location in the winter semester
Lecture
Fridays, 4th DS, 13:00 - 14:50
every week
The lecture takes place online or in room ABS/2-06/U.
Tutorial
Tuesdays, 2nd DS, 9:20 - 10:50 a.m.
only in odd weeks
The exercise takes place online or in room ABS/2-06/U.
Documents for the course
The script and other documents (e.g. lecture slides, solutions to exercises) can be found in the Bildungsportal Sachsen (OPAL) on the Institute's website. The password-protected access with your ZIH login data is granted to participants of the course after a one-time registration. Please address your inquiries in this regard to a lecturer of this course.