Bedload transport in gravel-bed streams with unimodal sediment

Bedload transport in many gravel-bed streams becomes highly complicated because of the nonuniformity of the grain size and the vertical stratification of channel bed material. A new relation for computing bedload transport rates in gravel-bed streams is proposed here. In an effort to account for the variation of the makeup of the surface material within a wide range of Shields stresses, the relation employs a two-parameter approach, one related to the material in the pavement and the other to that in the subpavement layers. The mode is used to represent the grain sizes of each layer. Available bedload transport data from gravel-bed streams with unimodal sediment are used to test the accuracy of the relation. A comparison with other bedload transport relations is also considered.

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