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| Guillon, Laurent; Lurton, Xavier. |
| Signals received by low-frequency multibeam echosounders are strongly affected by sound penetration inside the upper sediment layers and by backscattering from buried layers down to depths of a few meters; this may lead to serious ambiguities and misinterpretations of experimental data. These phenomena are modeled here using a concept of equivalent input backscattering strength (EIBS), based on a combination of classical models of local backscattering strength and propagation inside fluid layered media. The local backscattering strength at a buried interface is expressed first to account for the impedance adaptation due to the overlying layers, for the angular refraction effects due to the velocity profile, and for the layered structure of the underlying... |
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Palavras-chave: Sound propagation; Sediment structure; Multibeam sonar; Echosounding; Backscatter; Acoustic properties; Sediment properties. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2001/publication-729.pdf |
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| Jacobs, Walter; Le Hir, Pierre; Van Kesteren, Walther; Cann, Philippe. |
| Results of a large number of erosion tests on artificially generated and relatively dense sand-mud mixtures are presented. Soil sample compositions are varied concerning clay-silt and sand-silt ratio, and clay mineralogy. The experimental set-up consists of a re-circulating small-scale rectangular erosion flume with unidirectional flow conditions. The erosion threshold and erosion rate are studied through step by step increasing the flow rate during a test. Results clearly indicate time-decreasing erosion during which individual flocs are randomly eroded, and time-independent (steady) erosion during which both sand and mud particles are continuously and uniformly eroded. These two erosion types appear to be floc and surface erosion, respectively... |
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Palavras-chave: Erosion; Sand-mud mixtures; Clay; Sediment structure; Critical shear stress; Strength. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00041/15252/12678.pdf |
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