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Sediment Transport Impacts Upon Culvert Hydraulics, Wade H. Goodridge

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Sedimentation buildup and accumulation can cause serious impediments to the hydraulic capacity of culvert systems. There has not been any significant research to date regarding the behavior of bed load transport nor the implications of bed forms upon the hydraulics associated with culvert flow. The primary objective of this study was to investigate how sediment transport occurs in a culvert and to then develop a methodology and test setup to successfully investigate this sediment transport. The investigation was limited to studying culvert and pipeline transport of alluvial material in sand and gravel sizes.

This dissertation develops a semi-empirical bed load …