Flume experiment into the influence of the noise due to water flow and non-collision against the pipe on measurement of sediment discharge using hydrophone data

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  • IUCHI Takuma
    National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  • UCHIDA Taro
    National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  • YOSHIMURA Nobuya
    Corvac Co., LTD.
  • TSURUTA Kenji
    Corvac Co., LTD.
  • TANAKA Yasutaka
    National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  • KANBARA Jun'ichi
    Sabo Department of Nagano Prefecture
  • SAKURAI Wataru
    National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

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  • ハイドロフォンを用いた掃流砂観測における流水によるノイズ・非衝突の影響に関する水路実験
  • ハイドロフォン オ モチイタ ソウリュウサ カンソク ニ オケル リュウスイ ニ ヨル ノイズ ・ ヒショウトツ ノ エイキョウ ニ カンスル スイロ ジッケン

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<p>Pipe hydrophone is an acoustic sensor that is widely used to measure sediment discharge in mountainous rivers in Japan. Monitoring data has been dramatically increased in the last decade. However, because the sound pressure of small colliding grain is smaller than that of the noise due to water flow, there is a lower limit of detectable grain diameter. Also because some of sediment grains do not collide against the pipe, the sediment discharge may be underestimated. Here we carried out the flume experiments on the same installation condition with general field measurements and measured the sound pressure of the noise due to water flow and that of the colliding grain. Then we analyzed a lower limit of detectable grain diameter and estimated the collision ratio by the same method Uchida et al. (2015) proposed. The results of this study are as follows. (1) On the experimental flume because the magnitude of the noise due to water flow was dependent on the noise near the water surface, the noise due to water flow became larger with the water depth became more shallow and the turbulence of the water surface became larger. (2) Based on the result, we estimated that on individual collision in case the diameter was 2 mm detecting probability was around 40% and in case the diameter was 3 mm detecting probability was more than 90%. On collective collision in case the diameter was 1 mm detecting probability was around 30% and in case the diameter was 2 mm detecting probability was almost 100% (3) In case dimensionless tractive force took a value within the range of 0.1≦τ ＊＜0.3 and the collision ratio ranged between 0.3 to 0.7.</p>

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