Monitoring of settling and consolidation of mud after water injection dredging in the Calandkanaal

As regular maintenance and relocation of sediment deposits are highly expensive, Port authorities seek more efficient solutions for reducing the costs and CO2 emissions of maintenance dredging. One solution, water injection dredging (WID), is carried out for maintaining the sediment deposits which predominantly consist of clay and silt. WID has...

A stochastic model approach for optimisation of lowland river restoration works

Over the course of centuries, river systems have been heavily trained for the purpose of safe discharge of water, sediment and ice, and improves navigation. Traditionally, dikes are used to be reinforced and heightened to protect countries from ever higher flood levels. Other types of solutions than technical engineering solutions, such as...

Efficiency of hanging silt curtains in cross-flow

When dredging in sensitive environments, efforts have to be made to limit the free dispersal of suspended fine sediment from the dredging spill. Especially the use of hanging silt curtains as an environmental mitigation measure is widespread. Despite frequent application, their ability to reduce turbidity levels through vertical diversion of...

Numerical Modeling of Excavation Process in Dredging Engineering

The increase of world population has been requiring more and more lands for human activities, which is why the world dredging market has been significantly growing up during the past 20 years. In dredging engineering, underwater excavation process is one of the major procedures which involves complicated physics, no matter it is sand, clay or...