After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Solve simple hydrology and hydraulic engineering problems
- Review hydrology, hydraulics and the service life of culverts
- Review culvert inspection condition reports
Description
Culverts are a critical component of our drainage system which protects people and property from the damaging effect of floods. Assessment and review of designs and condition reports are an essential function in asset management in todays setting of fiscal restraint.
The course was prepared for managers, reviewers, technicians, and inspectors who need a basic understanding of the design, installation, and inspection of culverts during their useful life. This course provides the fundamentals without delving into complicated mathematical formulas. Lectures will include real-life examples and simple hands-on exercises and problem-solving.
Course Outline
- Drainage Design Criteria
- Rainfall Analyses
- Time of Concentration –Review of Design Equations, Charts and Their Limitations
- Workshop for Estimating Flows in Drainage Design
- Open Channel Flow
- Design of Open Channels
- Design of Culverts and Bridge Openings
- Culvert Inspection and Estimation of Service Life
- Review and Conclusions
Who Should Attend
Engineers managers, reviewers, technicians, and inspectors not familiar with hydro technical engineering, such as:
- civil engineers
- mechanical engineers
- mining engineers
- agricultural engineers
- municipal engineers
- manufacturers of drainage products
- general contractors
- property managers
- directors of physical plants
- municipal officials
- infrastructure inspectors
- field review personnel
- project engineers
- others who would like to know more about hydro-technical systems or require a refresher
Course Syllabus
Basic Hydrology-Refresher
- Introduction
- Review of drainage concepts and needs
Drainage Design Criteria
- Flood control risks, liability and the unknown effect of climate change
- Water quality control
- Erosion control
- Water balance, recharge and thermal warming criteria-why is it so difficult to meet the criteria?
Rainfall Analyses
- Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) data
- Historical storms
- Storm distribution in time
- Storm frequencies-the danger of extrapolation
- Design storms or floods-how to cope with lack of long and reliable data sets
Time of Concentration –Review of Design Equations, Charts and Their Limitations
- Bransby Williams equation
- Kirpich equation
- Airport formula
Workshop for Estimating Flows in Drainage Design
- Use of Rational Method for estimating design discharge
- Discussion of modelling and SWMM for estimating design discharge
- Use of Statistical analyses of observed data to estimate design discharge
Basic Hydraulics-Refresher
Open Channel Flow
- Basic laws of hydraulics
- Types of flows
- Manning's equation
- Roughness coefficients
- Stream erosion and threshold velocities
- Effect of urbanization on stream hydraulics
Design of Open Channels
- Manning’s equation
- Stable channels
- Composite channels
- Triangular channels and gutters
Design of Culverts and Bridge Openings
- Culverts, inlet and outlet control
- Use of design charts
- Inlet erosion protection
- Debris control
- Fish passage
Culvert Inspection and Estimation of Service Life
- Inspection requirements
- CS Corrosion
- Estimating CS Service Life
Review and Conclusions
- Design objectives
- Design standards
- Liability and Risk
Course Rating
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COURSE CREDIT
Almost all of EPIC's courses offer :
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and
- Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
These course credits will help attendees earn training requirements for their associations or provincial governing bodies.
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