CIVE 638 - Sedimentation Engineering - Suggested Project Topics - Fall 2018

  1. Review, analysis, and status of the Shields criterion for initiation of motion. (TBA)

  2. Review of the relation between critical shear stress and critical velocity. (TBA)

  3. Review of the Jarrett principle. (TBA)

  4. Forms of bed roughness and their influence on total boundary friction. (TBA)

  5. Analysis of sediment yield in a California stream. (Stevenson)

  6. Difference between sediment production and sediment yield across basin size. (Mathews)

  7. Experience with the Dendy-Bolton formula of sediment yield in the past 40 years. (TBA)

  8. Review of the difference between the USLE and MUSLE formulas. (Mikesell)

  9. Status of our knowledge on the cause of meandering. (TBA)

  10. History of sediment transport in the Colorado river, from predevelopment to post-development. (Da Silva)

  11. River engineering in the Kosi river (India) and other similar high sediment-load streams. (Steinberg)

  12. History and status of river engineering in the Lower Mississippi river. (Sadeque)

  13. Application of the Colby method to a California stream. (TBA)

  14. Application of the Ackers-White method to a California stream. (TBA)

  15. Application of the Modified Einstein Procedure to a California stream. (TBA)

  16. Comparison between Colby 1957 and Colby 1964 methods. (TBA)

  17. Comparison between Ackers-White and Colby 1964 methods. (TBA)

  18. Comparison between Duboys and Einstein-Brown methods. (TBA)

  19. Review and application of Einstein's bedload function to Big Sand Creek, Misissippi. (TBA)

  20. Application of Online Modified Einstein Procedure to Big Sand Creek, Misissippi. (TBA)

  21. Effectiveness of Lara's modification to the Modified Einstein Procedure. (TBA)

  22. Analysis of reservoir sedimentation at a dam in San Diego County. (Walker)

  23. Analysis of reservoir sedimentation at a dam in California. (TBA)

  24. The case for and against sediment trapping dams. (Barron)

  25. Review of sediment routing and its use in the HEC-RAS model. (Requieron)

  26. Review of celerity of transient bed profiles. (TBA)

  27. Review and analysis of sediment rating curves. (Wilder)

  28. Review and analysis of scour below dams. (TBA)

  29. Review and analysis of the Modified Lane relation. (TBA)

  30. Is Einstein's principle true? (TBA)

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