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Erosional Process of Cohesive Sediments
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1985
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Geotechnical EngineeringSoil ErosionErosion ProcessEarth ScienceEngineeringErosion PredictionGeomorphologySediment QualityDepositional ProcessCivil EngineeringErosionSediment ProcessCohesive SedimentsSedimentologySediment TransportChikugo EstuaryCoastal Sediment TransportSedimentation
Tests on erosion of the cohesive sediments in the Chikugo estuary in Japan were conducted. The results indicate that the decrease in the rate of erosion at constant shear stresses is caused rapidly 20 to 30 minutes after the start of tests and that tue decrease is caused by the increase in the solid fraction and the yield value of the seaiment remaining uneroded due to shear stress. In order to simulate the erosion process of sediments, a model in which the increase in the yield value of sediment is assumed to be proportional to the integration value of the absolute value of the sediment velocity gradient with respect to time was developed. The simulation based on this model is shown to be available to estimate the amount of sediments eroded in the erosional process of cohesive sediments.