Contents of:

MANUAL SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS (1986, 1993, 2005 and 2007), 500 pages
 
This manual presents all details of measurement instruments/methods for mud, silt and sand transport in rivers, estuaries and coastal seas. The manual includes: measuring principles and errors involved, methods to compute sediment transport from measured data, a wide range of instruments from simple mechanical samplers to sophisticated electronic equipment. Bed load transport as well as suspended load transport is addressed. Methods and instruments to measure particle size and particle fall velocity are discussed. Laboratory and in-situ sample analysis is described. Instrumentation for determining the wet bulk density of bed material (important for dredging studies) is also presented.  Regular updates of the methods and instrumentation are made. 
The manual was first published in 1986; updated in 1993, 2005, 2007.

1.  INTRODUCTION

2.  MORPHOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT DEFINITIONS

3.  MEASURING PRINCIPLES, STATISTICS AND ERRORS
Measuring principles for suspended load
Measuring principles for bed load
Measuring statistics; number of measurements for suspended load transport and bed load transport
Sampling errors and required accuracy

4. COMPUTATION OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS
Total load in rivers; partial and integral method
Total load in estuaries/seas; tide-integrated total load transport

5.  MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
Instrument characteristics
Instruments for rivers, estuaries and coasts
Comparison of instruments
Description of bed load samplers; trap samplers, bed form tracking
Description of suspended load samplers; bottle and trap samplers, pump samplers, optical instruments,
acoustical instruments, impact samplers, nuclear instruments

6.  MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR PARTICLE SIZE AND FALL VELOCITY
Instrument characteristics
Comparison of instruments
Description of instruments; photographic instruments, sieve methods, sedimentation methods,
accumulation tubes, withdrawal tubes, Laser-diffraction methods, video-cameras

7.  MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR  BED MATERIAL SAMPLING
Grab, dredge and scoop samplers
Core samplers

8.  LABORATORY AND IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES
Determination of sediment concentration
Analysis of bed material samples
Analysis of suspended material samples
Determination of sediment density

9.  IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF WET BULK DENSITY
Mechanical core samplers
Acoustic probes
Nuclear radiation probes

10. INSTRUMENTS FOR BED LEVEL DETECTION
Mechanical, acoustical and optical instruments

11. ARGUS-VIDEO SYSTEM
History, tools and applications


ANNEX:  MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR
                 FLUID VELOCITY, PRESSURE AND WAVE HEIGHT

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