CIV E 638 SEDIMENTATION ENGINEERING
    FALL 2022
    SUGGESTED PROJECT TOPICS

  1. Review and analysis of the Jarrett principle. (TBA)

  2. Review and analysis of the Kennedy principle. (TBA)

  3. Review and analysis of the Lane relation. (TBA)

  4. Difference between sediment production and sediment yield across basin size. (Ghadiraju)

  5. The case for and against levee systems. (TBA)

  6. The case for and against levee systems, with application to the Lower Mississippi river. (Santos)

  7. Can we solve the sediment problem? Examples from the real world. (Moore)

  8. The concept of levee fuse and its use in the Mississippi river flood of 1993. (TBA)

  9. Will the Atchafalaya distributary eventually take over the Mississippi river? (McRae)

  10. The experience with the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway during the flood of May 2011. (Merpour)

  11. The bad flood vs the good flood: A sedimentation dilemma. (Rinder)

  12. Comparison of the USLE and MUSLE formulas. (Esho)

  13. Bed profile of the Snake river and interpretation of the great flood at Red Rock Pass about 15,000 BP. (TBA)

  14. The cause of river meandering, and what to do about it. (De La Cruz)

  15. Status of river engineering in the Lower Mississippi river. (TBA)

  16. Status of river engineering in the Sacramento river. (TBA)

  17. Application of the Colby method to a California stream. (TBA)

  18. Application of the Ackers-White method to a California stream. (TBA)

  19. Application of the Modified Einstein Procedure to a California stream. (TBA)

  20. Comparison between Colby 1957 and Colby 1964 methods. (TBA)

  21. Comparison between Ackers-White and Colby 1964 methods. (Cortez)

  22. Analysis of reservoir sedimentation at a dam in California. (Thornbury)

  23. Analysis of reservoir sedimentation at a dam in the United States. (Fassell)

  24. Analysis of reservoir sedimentation at a dam in the world. (TBA)

  25. Case studies of scour below dams. (Garole)

  26. Case studies of scour at bridge piers. (Mueller)

  27. Analysis of bridge scour using HEC-18 and Melville's equations. (TBA)

  28. Analysis of bridge scour using the Froehlich and Jain & Fisher equations. (TBA)

  29. Comparison between the Lane and Modified Lane relations. (TBA)

  30. Experience with the concept of ford-bridge. (TBA)

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