Classification of Sediment Quality according to Its Behavior in the Accelerated Particle Wear Test (APW)

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Title: Classification of Sediment Quality according to Its Behavior in the Accelerated Particle Wear Test (APW)
Authors: Pagán, José Ignacio | Tenza-Abril, Antonio José | Aragonés, Luis | Villacampa, Yolanda | López, Isabel
Research Group/s: Ingeniería del Transporte, Territorio y Medio Litoral (AORTA) | Tecnología de Materiales y Territorio (TECMATER) | Modelización Matemática de Sistemas
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada
Keywords: Beach nourishment | Sediment | Quality | Classification | PCA | Discriminant analysis
Knowledge Area: Ingeniería e Infraestructura de los Transportes | Ingeniería de la Construcción | Matemática Aplicada
Issue Date: 1-Mar-2021
Publisher: MDPI
Citation: Pagán JI, Tenza-Abril AJ, Aragonés L, Villacampa Y, López I. Classification of Sediment Quality according to Its Behavior in the Accelerated Particle Wear Test (APW). Sustainability. 2021; 13(5):2633. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052633
Abstract: One of the main problems faced in coastal management is the loss or destruction of beaches due to erosion. A considerable diversity of factors is involved in coastal erosion, which makes it a complex system to study. The quality of the material that constitutes the beach, as well as the choice of appropriate materials for its nourishment are two of the main ones. Therefore, to make future nourishment projects more sustainable and durable, this work proposes a sediment quality classification based on the physical properties and wear process obtained through laboratory tests. The study of these variables, using principal component analysis, discriminant analysis and ANOVA, has divided the quality of 70 samples into three main groups. A Sediment Quality Classification Index (SQCI) is proposed, which categorizes the quality of the material into poor, regular or good, providing the coastal engineer with a simple tool to ensure more sustainable beach nourishments.
Sponsor: This research was funded by Generalitat Valenciana through the project GV/2019/017 (Estudio sobre el desgaste y composición de los sedimento y su influencia en la erosión de las playas de la Comunidad Valenciana).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/113389
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su13052633
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Peer Review: si
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052633
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