Design criteria for Soil and Water Bioengineering (SWB) structures; Monitoring and temporal evolution of SWB; slope stability modelling.
GIS for watershed analysis and hydrology, hydrological and hydraulic modelling, introduction to erosion
Course material
Online support material on QGIS:
https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/training_manual/index.html
https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/
http://www.qgistutorials.com/it/index.html
Learning Objectives
To acquire skills in planning, designing, monitoring and managing SWB structures.
To gain theorical and practical skills for watershed management and hydrogeological risk assessment (including modelling)
Prerequisites
Pedologia ed Idrologia Forestale
Sistemazioni Idraulico-Forestali
Teaching Methods
lessons, workshops, field trips
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Realization of a project and oral exam
Course program
Use of SWB for slopes stabilization: potential and limitation; Slope stability analysis; Type of structures; Design parameters; Effect of vegetation on slope stability
Watershed management; Flow resistance in vegetated riverbeds; Riverbed dynamics and associated hazards; Design criteria; Hydraulic parameters and verifications for the realization of SWB works in the hydraulic field; Interventions on water courses: Effects of sparse interventions at the basin scale.
Hydrological engineering (return period and statistical analysis, extreme rainfall events analysis, IDF curves, rainfall-runoff transformation, flood waves)
GIS tools for hydrology and watershed delineation
RUSLE equation and erosion
Hydrological modelling: theory, calibration and validation.
Elements of open flow hydraulics
Workshops with hydrological, hydraulic and slope stability models.