Vanes for bank protection and sediment control in rivers
US4711597A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 18, 1986 |
| Grant date | Dec 8, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 18, 2006 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
- CPC primaryE02B3/04
- WIPO fieldCivil engineering
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A flow-training structure for use in rivers and streams to minimize bank erosion, and to control bed degradation and aggradation. The structure consists of single vanes or arrays of vanes of a particular double-curved design. The vanes are installed in the river bed in designed arrays to produce changes in the local directions of the near-bed velocity, without changing the sediment-transport or flow-conveyance capacities of the channel.
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