Seabed Preparation and Installation Processes

This course entails the seabed preparation processes that are typically encountered in dredging and marine construction. These seabed alterations are typically due to mechanical or hydraulic action, but could also happen due to natural processes occurring. The following content will be treated during the course:

- Introduction to dredging engineering and dredging equipment
- Intro to soil mechanics
- Cutting mechanisms
- Generic cutting model
- Cutting of saturated sand
- Clay cutting
- Rock cutting
- Settling velocity
- Sedimentation en (high speed) erosion
- Jetting in sand and clay
- Breaching
- Turbidity currents