Print Email Facebook Twitter The need for experimental studies on breaching flow slides Title The need for experimental studies on breaching flow slides Author Alhaddad, S.M.S. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics) Labeur, R.J. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics) Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics) Date 2019 Abstract Recent studies have revealed that breaching, rather than liquefaction, is the dominant failure process in underwater slopes of fine sand and the main driver of observed flow slides in nature. As a result, breaching is getting more attention from hydraulic and geotechnical researchers. Measurements of breaching-generated turbidity currents are substantial for understanding the interaction between the turbidity current and the slope surface, as well as for the validation of numerical models. However, these measurements are scarce in the literature. To this end, laboratory experiments are planned to be carried out in the water lab of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. This paper describes the special experimental setup that will be employed to obtain the required data. Subject Flow slidebreachingturbidity currentsediment entrainment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6bed4501-70c8-4d8c-bcaf-26d1b285757a Source 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction Event MPM 2019: 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction, 2019-01-08 → 2019-01-10, Cambridge, United Kingdom Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 S.M.S. Alhaddad, R.J. Labeur, W.S.J. Uijttewaal Files PDF MPM2019_paper_27.pdf 589.14 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6bed4501-70c8-4d8c-bcaf-26d1b285757a/datastream/OBJ/view