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

The course consists of group work based on assignments per topic. The group work will be assessed based on the average score of the assignments (67%), and a Q&A (33%). The Q&A will result in an individual grade.

In order to pass the course, each assignment and the Q&A require a minimum grade of 5.8. The Q&A requires your active participation to receive a grade.

In case an assignment is graded lower than 5.8, your group has the opportunity to submit an updated report within the communicated time frame. Updated reports cannot receive a grade higher than 5.8. If your grade for the Q&A is lower than 5.8, you have the opportunity of a second individual Q&A.