Teacher
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TAURO Flavia
(syllabus)
• Definitions, objectives, and methodologies of Biotechnical Engineering; (4 hours) • The water cycle; hydro-meteorological data; hydrological catchments and water systems; analysis of precipitation; river floods and extreme events; basics of river hydraulics; (8 hours) • Plant analysis; technical and biological characteristics of plants; use and methods of plants in Biotechnical Engineering; (8 hours) • Geological and geotechnical analysis of landscape; hydraulic ecosystem analysis; fundamentals of Naturalistic Engineering design; materials of Biotechnical Engineering; (8 hours) • Design of major Biotechnical Engineering solutions and structures: streams and rivers, stream banks, hillslopes. Case studies and examples; (12 hours) • Visits to Biotechnical Engineering structures. (8 hours of Laboratory)
(reference books)
• Applied Hydrology (V.T. Chow, D. R. Maidment, L. W. Mays, McGraw-Hill, 1988) • Biotechnical and Soil Bioengineering Slope Stabilization: A Practical Guide for Erosion Control (D.H. Gray and R.B. Sotir, John Wiley and Sons, 2018)
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