Dredging Processes
(OE4626)Readings
1. General - Fundamental theory required for sand, clay and rock cutting
This note (text - 65 pages / pdf - 0.6 MB) discusses amongst others the Mohr circle.
2. Cutting of sand - Limits on dredging processes
This article (text - 21 pages / pdf - 0.5 MB) explains the considerations of limits of dredging processes.
3. Cutting of sand - Pipeline dynamics
This article (text - 23 pages / pdf - 0.4 MB) talks about the modelling and simulation of the dynamic behaviour of a pump/pipeline system.
4. Cutting of sand - Two dimensional cutting theory
This article (text - 32 pages / pdf - 0.8 MB) deals with the two dimensional cutting theory.
5. Cutting of sand - Production estimating
This article (text - 27 pages / pdf - 5.0 MB) provides the production estimation based on cutting theories for cutting water saturated sand.
This document (graphs - 8 graphs / pdf - 0.8 MB) provides additional graphs about energy and production.
6. Cutting of sand - Snow plough
This article (text - 19 pages / pdf - 3.2 MB) deals with the snow-plough effect when cutting water saturated sand with inclined straight blades.
This document (graphs - 12 graphs / pdf - 0.8 MB) provides additional measurement graphs about the snow plough effect.
7. Cutting of clay
This article (text - 26 pages / pdf - 2.8 MB) discusses new developments of cutting theories with respect to dredging.
8. Hopper sedimentation
This article (text - 23 pages / pdf - 0.5 MB) discusses the theory for hopper sedimentation.
9. Breaching process
This article (text - 26 pages / pdf - 0.8 MB) explains the breaching process.
10. Cutting of rock
This article (text - 41 pages / pdf - 1.7 MB) discusses the cutting of rock.
Advanced Readings
Soil Mechanics
This is the screenbook version (text book, 340 pages) of the book :
SOIL MECHANICS
by Arnold Verruijt
Delft University of Technology (2001).
This book is also available in Dutch (text book, 344 pages) :
GRONDMECHANICA
by Arnold Verruijt
Delft University of Technology (2001).
