AGRICULTURAL HYDRAULICS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: SIMONA CONSOLIExpected Learning Outcomes
At the end of the Agricultural Hydraulics course, students are expected to be able to carry out the design and verification of long hydraulic pipelines, to carry out a dimensional analysis of hydraulic quantities, to know the characteristics of a swing light and the prerogatives of the state of rest of a fluid.
- Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course students will be able to carry out the design and verification of long hydraulic pipelines (useful for the design of irrigation systems)
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: students will understand the processes that regulate the motion of liquids and their static conditions.
- Autonomy of judgment: the lessons, full of application examples, will be useful for students to self-evaluate the project work that will be assigned to them
- Communication skills: will be assessed during the oral test
- Learning ability: will be assessed through ongoing and final tests.
Course Structure
The teaching includes lectures and exercises. If the teaching is taught in mixed or remote mode, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the planned program, reported in the syllabus.
To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can request a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on the educational objectives and specific needs.
It is also possible to contact the CInAP reference teacher (Centre for Active and Participated Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSA) of our Department, prof. Anna De Angelis.
To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can request a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on the educational objectives and specific needs.
It is also possible to contact the CInAP reference teacher (Centre for Active and Participated Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSA) of our Department, prof. Anna De Angelis.
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of physics and mathematics (non-preliminary)
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance at lessons is not mandatory, although strongly recommended.
Detailed Course Content
To acquire knowledge on the properties of liquids, the statics of liquids, the laws that regulate the motion of water, the continuous and localized pressure drops that occur in pipes, the measurement of flow through swing lights. The student will acquire skills in the design and verification of pressure pipes and canals used in the irrigation sector.
The main topics covered in the Agricultural Hydraulics Course are the following: properties of liquids; laws of hydrostatics; laws of hydrodynamics; swing lights; hydraulic networks; calculation of pressures and hydrostatic thrusts; verification and sizing of pressure pipelines; verification and sizing of channels.
The contents covered during the course are aimed at enabling students to acquire methodologies for the practical resolution of sizing problems of irrigation systems and for verifying their functioning.
The main topics covered in the Agricultural Hydraulics Course are the following: properties of liquids; laws of hydrostatics; laws of hydrodynamics; swing lights; hydraulic networks; calculation of pressures and hydrostatic thrusts; verification and sizing of pressure pipelines; verification and sizing of channels.
The contents covered during the course are aimed at enabling students to acquire methodologies for the practical resolution of sizing problems of irrigation systems and for verifying their functioning.
Textbook Information
- Yunus A. Çengel, John M. Cimbala. 2007; 2020. Meccanica dei fluidi. Mcgrawhill
- Citrini, D. e Noseda, G.. Idraulica. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano,
- V. Ferro. 2013. Elementi di idraulica e idrologia per le scienze agrarie, ambientali e forestali. McGraw-Hill
- Dispense distribuite durante il corso
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Students will take an ongoing written test.
The test will include both exercises and open and/or multiple choice questions.
Students who pass the written test will be able to directly register for the Hydraulics exam
Agriculture at the first useful appeal.
For those who do not pass the written test, the exam methods will only be in the form of
"oral interview".
The writings are expected at the end of the course (around
end of January).
For all other exam sessions scheduled during the academic year, the form of examination of the Agricultural Hydraulics Course will be
The test will include both exercises and open and/or multiple choice questions.
Students who pass the written test will be able to directly register for the Hydraulics exam
Agriculture at the first useful appeal.
For those who do not pass the written test, the exam methods will only be in the form of
"oral interview".
The writings are expected at the end of the course (around
end of January).
For all other exam sessions scheduled during the academic year, the form of examination of the Agricultural Hydraulics Course will be
that of the "oral interview".
Votes will be attributed according to the following scheme
Use of references: Has deepened the topics
30-30L
Knowledge and understanding of topic: Excellent knowledge
Ability to analyze and synthesize: Has considerable ability to analyze and synthesize.
Use of references: Important insights.
Drafting design drawings of an infrastructure. The project must be endorsed in advance by the lecturer. Interview.
Evaluation of the student will be based on the following criteria:
ability to learn and level of depth of the topics covered, property of
synthesis and exposition, and the student's ability to reason.
Votes will be attributed according to the following scheme:
Unsuitable
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Significant shortcoming and inaccuracies
Analysis and synthesis skills: Irrelevant. Frequent generalizations. Inability to synthesize
Use of references: Completely inappropriate
18-20
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: At threshold level. Obvious imperfections
Analysis and synthesis skills: Barely sufficient ability
Use of references: Barely appropriate
21-23
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Routine knowledge
Analysis and synthesis skills: Is able to analyze and synthesize correctly. Argues logically and coherently
Use of references: Uses standard references
24-26
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Good knowledge
Analysis and synthesis skills: Has good analysis and synthesis skills. Topics are expressed consistently
Use of references: Uses standard references
27-29
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Knowledge more than good
Analytical and synthesis skills: Has considerable analytical and synthesis skills
Use of references: Has deepened the topics
30-30L
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Excellent knowledge
Analytical and synthesis skills: Has considerable ability to analyze and synthesize.
Use of references: Important insights.Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
1 Determine the hydrostatic thrust that a liquid exerts on the flat wall of a tank
collection
2 Apply the cardinal equation of statics to calculate the hydrostatic pressure
3. Determine the flow rate that passes through a system of long pipelines
4. Perform a free surface channel design
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2 Apply the cardinal equation of statics to calculate the hydrostatic pressure
3. Determine the flow rate that passes through a system of long pipelines
4. Perform a free surface channel design