All times listed below are Eastern time.
November 30, 2022
- 11:00 AM - Welcome, Introductions, Logistics
- 11:15 AM - Background to Spillways and Spillway Erosion; Course Overview
- 11:45 AM - Presentation that makes a strong case for the need for this training
- 12:15 PM - Get input from course participants of why they are here (experience, spillway design
- 12:30 PM - Break
- 12:45 PM - Case Study 1
- 1:00 PM - Introduction to Hydrologic Principles
- 1:15 PM - Inflow Frequency, Design Floods, and Hydrographs
- 1:45 PM - Watershed Rainfall-Runoff
- 2:15 PM - Lunch
- 2:45 PM - Streamflow Routing
- 3:00 PM - Reservoir Routing
- 3:30 PM - Introduction to SITES Software (Hydrology)
- 4:00 PM - Hydrology Exercise 2: SITES
- 4:30 PM - Break
- 4:45 PM - Review Hydrology Exercise 2 Results
- 5:00 PM - Open Channel Hydraulics
- 5:30 PM - Panel Q&A / Quiz Discussion
December 1, 2022
- 11:00 AM - Governing Hydraulics for Sediment Transport and Particle Motion
- 11:45 AM - Basic Scour/Erosion Mechanisms
- 12:15 PM - Case Study 2
- 12:30 PM - Break
- 12:45 PM - Soil & Rock Erodibility
- 1:15 PM - Field Evaluation Procedures and Inspection Practices
- 1:45 PM - Erodibility Index, Kh
- 2:15 PM - Lunch
- 2:45 PM - Detachment Rate Coefficient, Kd
- 3:15 PM - Introduction to SITES Software (Spillway Analysis)
- 3:30 PM - Spillway Erosion Exercise 1 (SITES)
- 4:00 PM - Break
- 4:15 PM - Spillway Erosion Exercise 1 (SITES)
- 4:45 PM - Review Spillway Erosion Exercise 1
- 5:00 PM - Physical Modeling Studies
- 5:30 PM - Panel Q&A / Discussion / Quiz
December 2, 2022
- 11:00 AM - Output and Application of Results
- 11:25 AM - Case Study 3
- 11:50 AM - WinDam-C vs. SITES
- 12:15 PM - Other Tools and Methods for Evaluating Spillway Erosion
- 12:40 PM - Intervention and Emergency Planning
- 1:05 PM - Break
- 1:25 PM - Case Study 4
- 1:50 PM - Spillway Erosion Synthesis
- 2:20 PM - Panel Q&A / Discussion / Quiz
