Vol. 62 No. 2 (2007):
Articles

Hydraulic design of an open check-dam with a upside down trapezium slot

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  • Vito Ferro,
  • Salvatore Bonsangue
Vito Ferro
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Tecnologie Agro-Forestali, Facoltà di Agraria, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo.
Salvatore Bonsangue
Dipartimento delle Foreste, Assessorato Agricoltura e Foreste della Regione Siciliana.

Published 2007-04-09

Keywords

  • stream rehabilitation,
  • open check dams,
  • slit-check dams,
  • hydraulic design

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Abstract

The open check-dams are able to establish a selective retention of the sediment particles transported by flow and to preserve the equilibrium of the reaches downstream from the stream rehabilitation works.
At first in this paper the hydraulic behaviour of an open check-dam with a slot is presented. Then, for the case of an open check-dam with an upside down trapezium slot, the equations available to solve the technical problems are proposed. Finally, some closed form equations useful to solve the technical problems (verification and design) are deduced.

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