Version 1
: Received: 4 January 2018 / Approved: 5 January 2018 / Online: 5 January 2018 (07:54:11 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 11 June 2018 / Approved: 13 June 2018 / Online: 13 June 2018 (08:37:32 CEST)
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van Asch, T.W.; Yu, B.; Hu, W. An 1-D Integrated Hydro-Mechanical Model to Unravel Different Hydrological Triggering Processes of Debris Flows. Preprints2018, 2018010032. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0032.v1
van Asch, T.W.; Yu, B.; Hu, W. An 1-D Integrated Hydro-Mechanical Model to Unravel Different Hydrological Triggering Processes of Debris Flows. Preprints 2018, 2018010032. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0032.v1
van Asch, T.W.; Yu, B.; Hu, W. An 1-D Integrated Hydro-Mechanical Model to Unravel Different Hydrological Triggering Processes of Debris Flows. Preprints2018, 2018010032. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0032.v1
APA Style
van Asch, T.W., Yu, B., & Hu, W. (2018). An 1-D Integrated Hydro-Mechanical Model to Unravel Different Hydrological Triggering Processes of Debris Flows. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0032.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
van Asch, T.W., Bin Yu and Wei Hu. 2018 "An 1-D Integrated Hydro-Mechanical Model to Unravel Different Hydrological Triggering Processes of Debris Flows" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0032.v1
Abstract
Many studies, which try to analyze the meteorological threshold conditions for debris flows ignore the type of initiation. This paper focuses on the differences in hydrological triggering processes of debris flows in channel beds of the source areas. The different triggering processes were studied in the laboratory and by model simulation on the field scale. The laboratory experiments were carried out in a flume, 8 m long and a width of 0.3 m. An integrated hydro-mechanical model was developed, describing Hortonian and Saturation overland flow, through flow, maximum sediment transport and failure of bed material. The model was tested on the processes observed in the flume. The flume experiments show a sequence of hydrological processes triggering debris flows, namely erosion and transport by intensive overland flow and by infiltrating water causing failure of channel bed material. Model simulations carried out on a schematic hypothetical source area of a catchment show that the type and sequence of these triggering processes are determined by slope angle and the hydraulic conductivity of the bed material. It was also clearly demonstrated that the type of initiation process and the geometrical and hydro-mechanical parameters may have a great influence on rainfall intensity-duration threshold curves, indicating the start of debris flows.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology
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