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2. REPORT TYPE
1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY)
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
Final report
September 2001
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
Development of a Large-Scale Laboratory Facility for Sediment Transport
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Research
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
David G. Hamilton, Bruce A. Ebersole, Ernest R. Smith, Ping Wang
5e. TASK NUMBER
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
ERDC/CHL TR-01-22
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199
10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
9. SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
Coastal Sedimentation and Dredging Program, General Investigations Research and
Development Program, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC 20314-1000
11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
This report documents the development and initial applications of the Large-scale Sediment Transport Facility (LSTF), which is located
at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), Vicksburg, MS. The
LSTF was built to facilitate basic and applied research in the field of coastal sediment transport processes. Work reported here was
funded by Work Unit 32870 "Large-Scale Laboratory Investigation of Longshore Sediment Transport," which is under the Coastal
Sedimentation and Dredging Program of the General Investigations Research and Development Program of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
A large-scale facility for investigating nearshore and surf zone sediment transport processes has been constructed and successfully
applied. This facility provides the Corps of Engineers with a capability for studying longshore sand transport at scales that are much
larger than the scales at which previous laboratory research has been conducted to examine these processes. The LSTF is state-of-the-art
in terms of the systems that have been built for generating relatively large-scale laboratory waves (four phase-synchronized electric-
motor-driven wave generators), pumping and recirculating the longshore current (20 independent and separately controlled pump and
piping networks for accurate control of the cross-shore distribution of the current), measuring the quantity of sand that
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