Meetverslag Bresgroeiproeven Zwin 6 en 7 oktober 1994

Gedetailleerd meetverslag van alle metingen uitgevoerd door de meetdienst zeeland tijdens de dijkdoorbraakproef (breach test) in het Zwin op 6 en 7 oktober 1994

Liquefaction and erosion of mud due to waves and current: Experiments on Westwald Clay

A research project was carried out at the Delft University of Technology in order to study the interaction between waves as weil as a current and a muddy bed. For this purpose several experiments were made on two artificial clays, namely China Clay and Westwald Clay. The results of the experiments on China Clay were reported by De Wit (1994). In...

The influence of upstram turbulence on local-scour holes

Excessive local scour can progressively undermine the foundation of a structure. Because complete protection against scour is too expensive generally, the maximum scour-depth and the upstream slope of the scour hole have to be predicted to minimize the risk of failure. In 1961 a systematical research 'tY'ith respect to scour holes started in the...

Coastal Protection and Dune Management in the Netherlands

Because dunes protect a large part of The Netherlands against coastal flooding and inundation, it is vital to guarantee the strength of these natural sea defenses. Besides sea defense, dunes have other functions. Sandy shorelines and dunes are frequently eroded. A legal framework has been developed that guarantees the required safety-level of...

A field experiment on beach growth in sand-dikes

The set-up and results of a field experiment on sand-dike breach erosion are described, It is found that the breaching process for the 2.2 m high sand-dike is similar to that in Visser's (1988) laboratory experiments with a 0.6 m high sand-dike. Confrontation of Visser's (1988) breach erosion model with the field data shows reasonable agreement...

Aggradation in rivers due to overloading

The problem of aggradation in a river due to overloading is tackled with a mathematical model consisting of a set of one-dimensional (in space) basic equations in which the water motion is assumed to be quasi-steady and the sediment transport is determined by local conditions. Analytical solutions are presented of a linearized simple-wave model,...

Erosion and transport of bed-load sediment

In this thesis first a general derivation is given of the 'macro'-equations of mass- and linear-momentum balance that govern the mo'mentum transfer from a Newtonian fluid to rigid particles in a fluid-solid mixture. In particular, attention is paid to a) the attenuation of viscous-momentum transfer from the boundary to the interior of a granular...