RT journal article
T1 Influence of Di erent Sieving Methods on Estimation of Sand Size Parameters
A1 Poullet, Patricio
A1 Muñoz Pérez, Juan José
A1 Poortvliet, Gerard
A1 Mera, Javier
A1 Contreras de Villar, Antonio
A1 Lopez  Garcia, Patricia
A2 Física Aplicada
A2 Ingeniería Industrial e Ingeniería Civil
K1 D-50
K1 sieving
K1 sand size
K1 sand parameters
K1 coastal dynamics
AB Sieving is one of the most used operational methods to determine sand size parameterswhich are essential to analyze coastal dynamics. However, the influence of hand versus mechanicalshaking methods has not yet been studied. Herein, samples were taken from inside the hopper ofa trailing suction dredger and sieved by hand with sieves of 10 and 20 cm diameters on board thedredger. Afterwards, these same samples were sieved with a mechanical shaker in the laboratory onland. The results showed di erences for the main size parameters D50, standard deviation, skewness,and kurtosis. Amongst the main results, it should be noted that the highest values for D50 andkurtosis were given by the small sieves method. On the other hand, the lowest values were given bythe mechanical shaker method in the laboratory. Furthermore, standard deviation and skewness didnot seem to be a ected by the sieving method which means that all the grainsize distribution wasshifted but the shape remained unchanged. The few samples that do not follow these patterns have ahigher percentage of shells. Finally and definitely, the small sieves should be rejected as a sievingmethod aboard.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-4441
YR 2019
FD 2019-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21637
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21637
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026