Date: 22 November 2016
Time: 14:00-15:00 hrs (CET)
Presenter: Dr. ir. Sape Miedema
Level: Practitioner (see below)

Registration

Attendance to this CEDA webinar is free of charge, registration however, is required. Registration will open in November. After registering, you will receive confirmation via e-mail from Edward Melger containing information about joining the webinar.

Summary

This webinar is the 5th webinar in the CEDA Series of Webinars on Dredging Technology. It will cover the following topics:

1. History.
2. Different types of graphs.
3. Empirical models.
4. Mechanistic models.
5. The Limit Deposit Velocity and the Limit of Stationary Deposit Velocity.
6. Which model to use and when.

Presenter

Dr. ir. Sape Miedema is Associate Professor of Dredging Engineering. In 1987 he was the first person in the world obtaining a PhD degree in Dredging. He is the author of about 150 scientific publications and of the books: The Delft Sand, Clay & Rock Cutting Model and Slurry Transport, Fundamentals, a Historical Overview and the Delft Head Loss & Limit Deposit Velocity Framework. Read more…

Reference material

• Miedema: Introduction Dredging Engineering (lecture notes). For the pdf version go to this page and search for Miedema.
• Miedema: The Delft Sand, Clay & Rock Cutting Model, 3rd version. For the pdf version go to this page and search for Miedema.
• Miedema: Slurry Transport: Fundamentals, A Historical Overview & The Delft Head Loss & Limit Deposit Velocity Framework. For the pdf version go to this page and search for Miedema.

Q&A

You will have the opportunity to ask questions via text during the webinar, and verbally after the presentation.

Target audience 

This Practitioner level webinar is meant for professionals working in the field of dredging or adjacent to it with no formal education/training in and /or with limited experience with dredging equipment and technology: engineers, scientists, lawyers, financiers working on projects involving dredging either as project owner/developer, regulator, consultant, financier, legal advisor.

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Acknowledgement 

The webinar is presented with support from Deltares, a Corporate Member of CEDA.

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