Hydrological and technical safety laboratory of hydraulic works of Academy of Engineering Department of "Architecture and Urban Development", RUDN.

Hydrological and Technical Safety Laboratory of Hydraulic Work of the Department of Architecture and Urban Development is intended for scientific purposes - experimental (model) and computational (numerical) study of relevant problems of modern river and urban hydrotechnology.

Another critical task is an active involvement of students and postgraduates of the Department in the scientific rationale of engineering and safe operation of hydraulic works.

The laboratory is an experimental and calculated basis for "Hydraulic Works Safety" and "Hydrotechnical Constructions" teaching-training system. It is also intended for research activities in related fields (engineering hydraulics, hydrology and water management, river hydraulics, modeling of hydraulic works, river and underground hydraulic works, seismic resistance of hydraulic works). It is designed to improve quality of diplomas' and Master's research papers, to encourage student's scientific work and to enhance professional qualification of graduates and teachers.

Main scientific directions All directions

Numerical and model researches of hydrological and technical (static and seismic) safety of dams and discharge sluices.
Numerical study of ground dams' and slopes' stability under static and seismic impact.
Numerical studies of static and seismic stability and strength of pressed concrete dams with a view to optimizing profiles of these dams on rock and soil foundation.
Calculating theory and model studies of discharge sluices and matching condition of released flow with lower reach.
Model and numerical studies of water flow interaction with deformed river bed (river bed processes, erosion of the bottom, banks, estuaries of rivers).

Achievements All achievements

Scientific rationaleof environment oriented technologies, processing and disposal of man-made wastes in hydrotechnical construction.

New designs of dams made from particularly skinny pressed concrete and stone reinforced with cement for semi-rock and soil foundation.

Participation in scientific rationale of the major dams and hydropower projects: Boguchanskaya (Russia), Nurekskaya and Rogunskaya (Tajikistan), Teri (India).

Used equipment See all

A testing facility to examine the main sediment deposition processes W2-A

It is intended to demonstrate and study deposition and sedimentation processes (sedimentation).

A sediment transport demonstration facility S8-MKII-A (England)

It is intended to demonstrate the full range of river bed shapes that appear when water increases and (or) the trough declines, as well as to demonstrate and carry out experiments in the field of hydraulics of open flows and sediment transport

A water filtration in porous environments facility S11-A

It is designed to demonstrate the hydrological laws of groundwater circulation and its application in the design of underground and hydrotechnical constructions

Drainage and filtration model S1-A (England)

It is designed for experimental study of filtration in porous environments

Simulator model of rainfall hydrograph S10-A (England)

It is designed to demonstrate physical processes in hydrology: relationship between rainfall and runoff from the surface of a river basin with a variable permeability and absorption of groundwater through drainage wells

A hydrologic and river bed processes facility S12-MKII-50-A with a set of supplementary models S12 (England)

It is intended to demonstrate the main physical processes in hydrology, hydrogeology and river geomorphology: river hydrographs for river basins with variable permeability and absorption of groundwater with pressure relief wells

A sediments and flows visualizing trough S2-4М-А

It is intended for a detailed study of the position of movable river beds and two-dimensional visualization of flows

Hydraulic trough Armfield S6-MkII (England)

It is designed to study all characteristics of a flow, visualize sediments transport and flow-past of different models

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