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Semester 2-2015/2016
ECV 5407- SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
Lecturer : Dr. Mohd Shahrizal Ab Razak
Office : A6-22
Telephone : 03-89464466
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The following data were measured by the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID)
Malaysia from a river station:
a. Water discharge, Q = 198.2 m3/s
b. Average depth, d = 2.99 m
c. Slope, S = 0.00044
d. River width, b=60.96 m
e. Manning roughness coeffciecient, n = 0.04
f. Particle size D90=0.46 mm
e. The bed material size distribution is given in Table 1:
Table 1
Geometric means (mm)
0.011
0.0884
0.177
0.354
0.707
1.41
2.83
Compute bed-load transport rate using (a) DuBoys, (b) Shields, (c) Meyer-Peters (d) MeyerPeter and Mullers (e) Kalinskes (f) Schoklitchs methods and compare the results. Also,
determine the bed load transport using Einsteins bed load formula.
2.
The fall velocity of sediment particle was tested in the laboratory. It is found that the fall
velocity of the sample is similar to the fall velocity of a sphere (Sg=2.68) having a diameter
of 0.2 mm. The fall velocity is also the same as the fall velocity of a sphere (Sg=2.65) with
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0
Figure 1.
3.
Compute the suspended sediment concentration using (a) Lane and Kalinskes (b) Brooks (c)
Chang Simon and Richardson and (d) Einsteins methods. Assume that Ca = 0.1 kg/m3 and the
thickness of bed load layer is 0.25 m. Compare the computed results with the measured result.
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4.
Explain, on the basis of the Rouse equation (1937) as per below, why suspended
sediment particles will not eventually all settle to the bottom of a turbulent open-channel
flow.
5.
The Klang River with an average width of 100 m discharges a flow at a rate of 1.6 m3/s/m.
The river has a slope of 0.0008 and average flow depth is estimated as 3.5 m. The
sediment has median diameter D50 = 1 mm, D65 = 1.2 mm, D35 = 0.6mm, fall velocity
0.15 m/s, sediment density, s=2650 kg/m3 and water viscosity is 1 x 10-6 m2/s.
(a) Using the Bagnold and Engelund and Hanson methods, compute the total sediment
discharge.
(b) Confirm that the hydraulic radius due to bed form (R) in the river is approximately
equal to 0.46 m by using the Einstein method.