Abstract: Transported driftwood and woody debris during floods may lead to accumulations and blockages at river bridges or weirs, and can result in excessive scour or an increase in backwater that may lead to flooding of the nearby ...

Abstract: The statistics of pressure fluctuations above and within three types of porous granular beds such as in gravel bed streams, rivers, and man-made canals are investigated by data gained via laboratory flume experiments. The ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments are presented that model the exchange processes between a river and dead-water zones created by groin fields. The measurement methods include particle image velocimetry (PIV) at the water surface to ...

Abstract: The importance of fuse plugs for spillways along embankments and levees has become very important in flood management. The present case study summarizes a series of laboratory tests conducted at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, ...

Abstract: The Swiss plate geophone system is a bed load surrogate monitoring technique that is used to quantify bed load transport in steep streams. The amplitude of the signal recorded by the Swiss plate geophone contains information ...

Abstract: Engineered step-pool sequences made from natural blocks to imitate the step-pool morphology of steep streams represent a nature-based alternative to concrete check dams. They potentially improve ecology and reduce construction ...