×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

erosion criteria

erosion criteria

erosion criteria

(OP)
I'm working on a gas production project.  When could you consider a fluid as erosive? What is the criteria?

RE: erosion criteria

It would depend on the fluid and what is being eroded.  

Typically during channel stability (in the case of erosion) the shear stress would be evaluated based on the velocity, surface cover, type of soil, liner, etc. and compared to the published data for the soil type.  Based on this information, you would be able to predict the conditions at which erosion would occur.

Are you referring to soil erosion?

RE: erosion criteria

You have said that you're working on a gas production project. Are you speaking of the gas being the fluid? or would you be speaking about rainwater runoff? Either could be erosive depending on the application (i.e within a channel, on a slope or even in an excavation) and soil type.

Pressure pipe flow and/or gravity pipe flow could also be erosive.

If you could provide some additional details it would be helpful for the forum to aid in answering your question.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources