Spillway and foundation erosion: Predicting erosion threshold
Conference
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OSTI ID:220168
- HDR Engineering, Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA (United States)
- Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO (United States); and others
This paper summarizes the method that will be used by the Bureau of Reclamation to investigate scour of spillways and dam foundations, and to develop a numerical model to compute the same. In what follows the basis of a unique relationship between the erosive power of water and the ability of earth materials to resist erosion, known as the Erodibility Index Method, is presented. The paper also provides a description of the approach that will be used by the numerical model to calculate the erosive power of plunging, aerated jets. The complimentary paper, Wittler (1995), describes the approach that will be used to investigate the extent of scour of spillways and dam foundations.
- OSTI ID:
- 220168
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507190--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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