The Delft Sand, Clay & Rock Cutting Model

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Sape A. Miedema

ISBN 13: 9789463661324

Publisher: TU Delft Open

Language: English

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic Soil Mechanics
Chapter 3: The General Cutting Process
Chapter 4: Which Cutting Mechanism for Which Kind of Soil?
Chapter 5: Dry Sand Cutting
Chapter 6: Saturated Sand Cutting
Chapter 7: Clay Cutting
Chapter 8: Rock Cutting: Atmospheric Conditions
Chapter 9: Rock Cutting: Hyperbaric Conditions
Chapter 10: The Occurrence of a Wedge
Chapter 11: A Wedge in Dry Sand Cutting
Chapter 12: A Wedge in Saturated Sand Cutting
Chapter 13: A Wedge in Clay Cutting
Chapter 14: A Wedge in Atmospheric Rock Cutting
Chapter 15: A Wedge in Hyperbaric Rock Cutting
Chapter 16: Exercises
Chapter 17: Bibliography
Chapter 18: Figures & Tables
Chapter 19: Appendices

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About the Book

In dredging, trenching, (deep sea) mining, drilling, tunnel boring and many other applications, sand, clay or rock has to be excavated. This book gives an overview of cutting theories. It starts with a generic model, which is valid for all types of soil (sand, clay and rock) after which the specifics of dry sand, water saturated sand, clay, atmospheric rock and hyperbaric rock are covered. For each soil type small blade angles and large blade angles, resulting in a wedge in front of the blade, are discussed. For each case considered, the equations/model for the cutting forces, power and specific energy are given. The models are verified with laboratory research, mainly at the Delft University of Technology, but also with data from literature.

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Dr.ir. S.A.Miedema teaches (or has taught) courses on soil mechanics and soil cutting, pumps and slurry transport, hopper sedimentation and erosion, mechatronics, applied thermodynamics related to energy, drive system design principles, mooring systems, hydromechanics and mathematics. He is (or has been) also teaching at Hohai University, Changzhou, China, at Cantho University, Cantho Vietnam, at Petrovietnam University, Baria, Vietnam and different dredging companies in the Netherlands and the USA.His research focuses on the mathematical modeling of dredging systems like, cutter suction dredges, hopper dredges, clamshell dredges, backhoe dredges and trenchers. The fundamental part of the research focuses on the cutting processes of sand, clay and rock, sedimentation processes in Trailing Suction Hopper Dredges and the associated erosion processes. Lately the research focuses on hyperbaric rock cutting in relation with deep sea mining and on hydraulic transport of solids/liquid settling slurries.

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