Preliminary Evaluation of Existing Breaching Erosion Models

S.M.S. Alhaddad*, R.J. Labeur, W.S.J. Uijttewaal

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Abstract

The ability to estimate the erosion rate along an underwater breach face is crucial to understand the evolution of breaching failure. To this end, breaching erosion models were developed and applied in numerical models. However, these erosion models have never been validated, owing to the scarcity of direct measurements of turbidity currents that accompany breaching. The aim of this study is to evaluate the existing breaching erosion models using direct measurements of recently performed laboratory experiments on breaching flow slides. We found out that the erosion model put forward by Mastbergen & Van Den Berg (2003) provides good agreement with the data and performs better than the one proposed by Van Rhee (2015). The latter tends to overestimate the erosion rate, particularly at steeper slopes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-10)
EditorsJohn Rice, Xiaofeng Liu, Inthuorn Sasanakul, Martin McIlroy, Ming Xiao
PublisherInternational Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Pages619-627
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event10th International Conference on Scour and Erosion - Virtual event
Duration: 18 Oct 202121 Oct 2021
https://www.issmge.org/events/the-10th-international-conference-on-scour-and-erosion

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Scour and Erosion
Period18/10/2121/10/21
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