Erosion Charts for Selected Geomaterials
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Volume 143, Issue 10
Abstract
Knowledge of erodibility is essential to the analysis of problems related to soil erosion including bridge scour, embankment and floodwall overtopping, dam spillway erosion, stream stability, and meander migration. Many investigators have attempted to classify erodibility according to basic engineering soil properties such as Atterberg limits, unit weight, water content, and shear strength. In general, the more successful of these attempts were those that studied the erodibility of coarse-grained materials due to the fact that the erosion resistance of such soils is primarily influenced by gravity and friction, and not the more complex electrostatic and electromagnetic forces that influence fine-grained soils behavior. This paper describes a way of assessing erodibility by presenting erodibility classification charts and erosion threshold charts for different soil types. These charts are developed from soil erosion test data as well as related experience of the authors and are meant to be used by practicing engineers as a first-order estimate in their erosion analyses. The paper also presents nonlinear models correlating soil erodibility parameters to the soil geotechnical properties. A practical example of the use of the charts is given to illustrate their application in practice.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) for their long-standing support of the Texas A&M University (TAMU) scour and erosion research group. They express gratitude to Jaime Gandara and John Delphia of TxDOT for providing erosion test data. They also wish to thank Michelle Bernhardt (TAMU) and Namgyu Park, Keunyong Rhee, and Radhakrishna G. Pillai (formerly of TAMU) for their support in erosion tests.
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Received: Mar 13, 2016
Accepted: Apr 21, 2017
Published online: Jul 22, 2017
Published in print: Oct 1, 2017
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