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Experimental Study on the Influence of Different Dam Body on the Sediment Interception and Discharge Capacity of the Cascade Permeable Dams
Summary
This hydraulic engineering study evaluates how the composition of cascade permeable dam bodies affects sediment interception and discharge capacity. The study is focused on river sediment management engineering and is unrelated to microplastic research.
Sediment deposition is an ecological and environmental problem faced by most water bodies. In view of the poor structural stability and unrepeatable use of existing permeable structures, this paper proposes a cascade permeable dam, which consists of four dam bodies. As the composition of the dam material is the key to sediment interception and discharge capacity, this study sets up two groups of dam material particle sizes for experiments. The results show that the sediment interception performance of the cascade permeable dam is good. When the dam material with a small particle size is selected, the percentage of intercepted sediment mass inside the four dam bodies is 75–89%. The interception sediment rate is much greater than that of the dam material with a large particle size, which tends to decline one by one along the flow direction. The discharge capacity of the dam gradually decreases with time, and there is an obvious decrease in the permeability coefficient of 1# dam. The results of this study provide programmatic support for reducing sediment entering shallow lakes and rivers, which can further optimize the structure design of permeable dams.
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