Sediment transport : theory and practice /

Based on his many years of research, teaching, engineering, and consulting, author Chih Ted Yang has written Sediment Transport Theory and Practice presenting readers with a balanced, in-depth treatment of the mechanics of sediment transport from a power approach. New in a field that has been studie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yang, Chih Ted, 1940- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : McGraw-Hill, [1996]
Series:	McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering.
Subjects:	Sediment transport. Sediment transport > Problems, exercises, etc. Sédiments (Géologie) > Transport. Sédiments (Géologie) > Transport > Problèmes et exercices. Sedimenttransport Transporte de sedimentos. Sédiments (géologie) > Transport. Sédim'ents (Géologie) > Transport > Problèmes et exercices. Sediment transport Sediment transport > Problems, exercises, etc rivieren rivers waterlopen streams kanalen canals water geologische sedimentatie geological sedimentation hydrodynamica hydrodynamics hydraulica hydraulics suspensies suspensions sediment Hydrology Hydrologie Problems and exercises.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: River and Poetry
1. Properties of Water and Sediment
2. Incipient Motion Criteria and Applications
3. Resistance to Flow and Bed Forms
4. Bed-Load Transport
5. Suspended Load Transport
6. Total Load Transport
7. Comparison and Evaluation of Sediment Transport Functions
8. Reservoir Sedimentation
Appendix I Notation
Appendix II Conversion Factors
Appendix III Physical Properties of Water
Appendix IV Computer Programs.