Laboratory investigation on the effects of flushes on cohesive sediment beds

Urban Water Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-14

  Campisano, A ^a   Creaco, E ^a   Modica, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesive sediments; Flushing gates; Laboratory experiments; Sewer cleaning

Indexed keywords

EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC GATES; SEDIMENTS; SEWERS;

COHESIVE SEDIMENT; EROSION; FLUSHING; LABORATORY METHOD;

EID: 37049002873     PISSN: 1573062X     EISSN: 17449006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15730620701726259     Document Type: Article

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