ABSTRACT: Geosynthetic structures created for channel erosion protection offer environmental friendly benefits and have demonstrably lower construction and lifetime costs than similar hard structures. A geotextile mattress with a sloping curtain (GMSC) offers an alternative countermeasure against channel erosion. In the present study, experiments were conducted to investigate the working mechanism and effectiveness of GMSCs which were installed on movable beds in a rectangular flume. The bathymetry of the plastic sand beds was measured before and after the tests. The results showed that the presence of the GMSC led to sediment deposition and dune formation at both upstream and downstream edges of the GMSC structure. This will prevent bottom erosion near the structure and increase its stability against flow-induced sediment scour, so that the erodible beds will be protected.
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December 2013
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December 01 2013
Experimental study of sediment trapping by geotextile mattress installed with sloping curtain
L. Xie;
L. Xie
1
Professor, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China, Telephone: 0826 21 65981543, Telefax: 0826 21 65989220, E-mail: xie_Liquan@tongji.edu.cn
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W. Huang;
W. Huang
2
Adjunct Professor, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida State University, FL, USA, Telephone: +1 850 410 6199, Telefax: +1 850 410 6236, E-mail: whuang77@tongji.edu.cn
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Y. Yu
Y. Yu
3
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Telephone: 0826 10 62797200, Telefax: 0826 10 62785593, E-mail: yuyuzhen@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
December 03 2012
Revision Received:
August 14 2013
Accepted:
September 09 2013
Online ISSN: 1751-7613
Print ISSN: 1072-6349
© 2013 Thomas Telford Ltd
2013
Geosynthetics International (2013) 20 (6): 389–395.
Article history
Received:
December 03 2012
Revision Received:
August 14 2013
Accepted:
September 09 2013
Citation
Xie L, Huang W, Yu Y (2013), "Experimental study of sediment trapping by geotextile mattress installed with sloping curtain". Geosynthetics International, Vol. 20 No. 6 pp. 389–395, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/gein.13.00026
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