| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Dedications | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Importance and distinction of sediments | p. 1 |
| Outline of the development of cohesive sediment behavior | p. 3 |
| Objectives of the book and outline of its contents | p. 6 |
| The Mineralogy and the Physiochemical Properties of Cohesive Sediments | p. 11 |
| General properties of cohesive sediment suspensions and of cohesive sediment deposits | p. 11 |
| The bonding mechanisms | p. 14 |
| Interatomic or Primary Bonds | p. 14 |
| Secondary Bonds | p. 22 |
| The nature and mineralogy of clay particles | p. 24 |
| Introductory Remarks | p. 24 |
| The Basic Clay Minerals | p. 25 |
| Origin and occurrence of clay minerals and formation of clay deposits | p. 43 |
| Forces between Clay Particles and the Process of Flocculation | p. 47 |
| Introductory remarks | p. 47 |
| The electric charge and the double layer | p. 47 |
| Isomorphous Substitution | p. 48 |
| Preferential Adsorption | p. 48 |
| The theoretical formulation of the double layer | p. 49 |
| The General Case | p. 49 |
| Surfaces of Constant Potential | p. 55 |
| Surfaces of Constant Charge Density | p. 55 |
| Illustrative Applications | p. 56 |
| Interaction of two flat double layers | p. 59 |
| Force and Energy Interaction | p. 59 |
| Illustrative Examples | p. 62 |
| Potential Energy of Interaction between Two Flat Double Layers | p. 64 |
| Illustrative Examples | p. 65 |
| Potential Energy of Interaction of Two Flat Double Layers Due to van der Waals Forces | p. 68 |
| Total Potential Energy for Two Particles and the Process of Flocculation | p. 70 |
| Some important properties of fine particles and aggregates | p. 75 |
| The Counterion Exchange | p. 75 |
| Limitations of the Gouy-Chapman Theory and the Stern Layer | p. 75 |
| The Water Phase | p. 78 |
| Sensitivity and Thixotrophy | p. 80 |
| Internal Structure and fabric of flocs, aggregates, and cohesive sediment deposits | p. 81 |
| Particle Arrangements within Flocs | p. 81 |
| The Microstructure of Deposited Cohesive Sediment Beds | p. 87 |
| The Hydrodynamic Transport Processes of Cohesive Sediments and Governing Equations | p. 89 |
| The fundamental transport equations for cohesive sediments | p. 89 |
| The Development of the General Transport Equations | p. 89 |
| Discussion of the Developed Equations | p. 94 |
| The process and dynamics of flocculation | p. 95 |
| Collisions Due to Brownian Motion | p. 95 |
| Collisions Due to Velocity Gradients | p. 100 |
| Collisions Due to Differential Settling | p. 103 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 106 |
| Review of fundamental properties of turbulent flows | p. 106 |
| Significant Stresses and Parameters | p. 106 |
| Collision Rates in Turbulent Flows | p. 116 |
| The properties of the aggregates and the aggregate growth equation | p. 118 |
| The Properties of Aggregates and Their Relation to the Controlling Flow Variables | p. 118 |
| Quasi Steady-State Aggregate Distribution and Maximum Aggregate Size | p. 128 |
| Some Additional Research Work on Flocculation and Aggregate Properties | p. 140 |
| Discussion and Concluding Remarks | p. 152 |
| Rheological Properties of Cohesive Sediment Suspensions | p. 155 |
| Importance of the subject | p. 155 |
| Basic properties of sediment suspensions and methods of evaluations | p. 156 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 169 |
| Erosion of Cohesive Soils | p. 173 |
| Introductory remarks | p. 173 |
| Erosion of consolidated cohesive soils | p. 174 |
| Early Empirical Information | p. 174 |
| More Recent Field and Laboratory Studies | p. 178 |
| Erosion of soft cohesive sediment deposits | p. 183 |
| Summary and concluding remarks | p. 200 |
| Deposition and Resuspension of Cohesive Soils | p. 203 |
| Deposition of cohesive sediments | p. 203 |
| Early Experiments and Preliminary Conclusions | p. 203 |
| Detailed Studies on Deposition. Part A: The Degree of Deposition | p. 208 |
| Detailed Studies on Deposition. Part B: The Rates of Deposition | p. 224 |
| Variation of Depositional Parameters as the Sediment Sorts during Deposition in Open Conduits | p. 234 |
| Hydrodynamic interaction of suspended aggregates with the deposited bed | p. 244 |
| Resuspension of deposited cohesive sediments | p. 252 |
| Introductory Remarks | p. 252 |
| Fundamental Considerations | p. 253 |
| Experimental Results | p. 254 |
| Summary and Closing comments | p. 271 |
| Engineering Applications of Cohesive Sediment Dynamics | p. 275 |
| Areas of application | p. 275 |
| Design of stable channels | p. 276 |
| Design for Safety Against Scouring | p. 276 |
| Design for Safety Against Deposition | p. 278 |
| Shoaling in estuaries | p. 278 |
| Fine Sediment Transport Processes in Estuaries | p. 279 |
| Illustrative case histories | p. 293 |
| The Savannah Estuary | p. 293 |
| The Delaware River Estuary | p. 301 |
| The River Thames Estuary | p. 303 |
| The Maracaibo Estuary | p. 306 |
| The San Francisco Bay Estuary | p. 315 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 317 |
| Applications to Estuarine Modeling | p. 318 |
| Control of environmental pollution | p. 319 |
| References | p. 323 |
| List of Symbols | p. 333 |
| Greek Symbols | p. 341 |
| About the Author | p. 345 |
| Author Index | p. 347 |
| Subject Index | p. 351 |
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