Sediment discharge measurement and calculation: Techniques for use at river gauging stations

The terms 'wash load', 'suspended bed material load' and 'bed load' are not clearly defined but, if applied with care, provide a useful basis for sub-dividing the total discharge of sediment in a river for the purpose of measurement. The accuracy with which each of the three types of sediment transport must be measured will depend on their...

Analytical approaches to non-steady bedload transport: report on basic research

In this report analytical solutions are developed for the bed load transport in rivers under unsteady conditions. A parabolic and a hyperbolic model are developed.

The probabilistic characteristics of bed load transport in alluvial channels

Formulas for Bed-Load transport

In the following paper, a brief summary is first of all given of the results and interpretation of tests already made known in former publications of the Laboratory for Hydraulic Research and Soil Mechanics at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. After that, an attempt is made to derive an empirical law of bed-load transport based on...

Anwendung der Aehnlichkeitsmechanik und der Turbulenzforschung auf die Geschiebebewegung

Ph.D thesis of Shields, original version in German. This document is the basis of all modern sediment transport formulae, and develops the concept of bed shear stress.