Author(s)

Martín Mundo-Molina, Jose Luis Pérez-Díaz, Daniel Hernández-Cruz

Engineering Faculty, Chiapas State University, Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas, Mexico.

Most public universities in Latin America and Mexico lack laboratories for measuring sediment transport or to do academic activities. The Research Center of the engineering faculty of Chiapas state university (UNACH by its acronym in Spanish) designed a portable prismatic channel for teaching and researching the sediment transportation in rivers. This paper presents the method to measure river sand transportation in a laboratory channel with a mobile bottom and presents the results of twenty-seven experiments done in the portable channel, using nine different slope inclinations and 27 flow and water speed values. The three main results are the following: 1) The construction of the channel with variable slopes, to experiment and measure sediment transportation. 2) A method developed for measuring the volume of sediment in a laboratory. 3) In a channel with a bottom slope of 0.071, a water flow of 2 l/s and a water speed of 1.77 m/s, the volume of transported sediment was 0.015 m³; in a channel with a bottom slope of 0.44, a water flow of 2 l/s and a water speed of 0.788 m/s, the volume of transported sediment was 0.006 m³; in a channel with the bottom slope of 0.024, a water flow of 2 l/s and a water speed of 0.62 m/s, the transported sediment was 0 m³.

Volumetric Measurement of Sediment, Sediment Transport, Transportable Prismatic Channel, Measurement of Sediment in Laboratory

Mundo-Molina, M. , Pérez-Díaz, J. and Hernández-Cruz, D. (2018) Methodology for Volumetric Measuring Transport of River Sand, in a Laboratory Channel with Mobile Bottom. Engineering, 10, 759-768. doi: 10.4236/eng.2018.1011053.