Cohesive Sediments

List of Contributors

Preface

CONFERENCE OVEVIEW

One of the Characterisation of Cohesive Sediment for Transport Modelling (W. Parker)

The in-situ Determination of the Settling Velocities of Suspended Fine-Grained Sediment--a review (D. Eisma and K. Dyer)

The Kolmogorov Microscale as a Limiting Value for the Floc sizes of Suspended Fine-Grained Sediments in Estuaries (W. van Leussen)

Temporal Variability in Aggregate Size and Settling Velocity in the Oosterschelde (The Netherlands) (W. ten Brinke)

Direct Measurements of Settling Velocities in the Owen Tube: A Comparison with Gravimetric Analysis (M. Dearnaley)

Estimation of Settling Flux Spectra in Estuaries Using INSSEV (M. Fennessy, et al.)

SETTLING AND CONSOLIDATION

Consolidation of Cohesive Sediments in Settling Columns (G. Sills)

Towards a New Constitutive Equation for Effective Stress in Self-Weight Consolidation (E. Toorman and H. Huysentruyt)

GENERAL DESCRIPTIVE DYNAMICS/CASE STUDY

Turbidity Maxima Formation in Four Estuaries (A. Arundale, et al.)

EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION

Interfacial Hydrodynamics and Entertainment Functions of Currently Used Erosion Devices (G. Gust and V. Müller)

On the Development of Instruments for in situ Erosion Measurements (J. Cornelisse, et al)

Developments in the Combined use of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers and Profiling Siltmeters for Suspended Solids Monitoring (J. Land, et al.)

A Laboratory Study of Cohesive Sediment Transport (M. Crapper and K. Ali)

DEPOSITION AND EROSION

Biological Mediation of Sediment Erodibility: Ecology and Physical Dynamics (D. Paterson)

Microbiological Factors Contributing to Erosion Resistance in Natural Cohesive Sediments (K. Black)

Erosion of Mixed Cohesive/Non-Cohesive Sediments in Uniform Flow (H. Torfs)

Size-Dependent Erosion of Two-Silty-Clay Sediment Mixtures (A. Teeter, et al.)

Erosion of Fluid Mud by Entrainment (J. Winterwerp and C. Kranenburg)

Critical Shear