Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen

At present state-of-knowledge, the selection of roughness coefficients for natural rivers still remains chiefly-an-art and is merely done by referring to typical tabulated values listed in any hydraulic textbooks or handbook manuals alongside with photographs of rivers which the values are mostly...

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Main Author:	David Asen, Susie Nadya
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Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	TA Engineering Civil engineering TA Engineering. Civil engineering
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.42692022-04-21T04:21:11Z Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen 2010 David Asen, Susie Nadya TA Engineering. Civil engineering River, lake, and water-supply engineering At present state-of-knowledge, the selection of roughness coefficients for natural rivers still remains chiefly-an-art and is merely done by referring to typical tabulated values listed in any hydraulic textbooks or handbook manuals alongside with photographs of rivers which the values are mostly unjustified for rivers in other areas of different conditions. Computations that are based solely on assumptions or predictions from secondary sources often result to error in hydraulic design. Despite various studies conducted to quantify the Manning’s n values for various river conditions as happening in developed countries, Malaysia is still lack of such activities. Thus, the present study attempts to derive an equation to estimate the roughness coefficient for rivers specifically located in the highland areas of Malaysia because a proper understanding on rivers should start from its nearest source by ensuring that extensive field database from these rivers are made available for proper quantification of the bed roughness coefficient which would be very useful for future planning of the rivers. Comprehensive field measurements at 29 rivers located in the highland areas throughout Malaysia were conducted which involve data collection and laboratory analysis over an extended period of time. The newly collected database was used to evaluate the existing resistance equations to obtain Manning, Darcy-Weisbach and Chezy resistance coefficients. Suitability checking was carried out by comparing the results of the calculated velocity (Vcalc) with the measured velocity (Vmeas) obtained from field measurements. 30 existing resistance equations were evaluated and checked for their discrepancy ratios within range of 0.5 to 2.0, which none of the equations exceed 50% passing. Therefore, development of an equation was carried out using 77 data. The new equation; f = 1.309(R/d50)-1.86E-03(RS/d50)0.048 presented here was developed through the Multiple Linear Regression Analysis, was found suitable to estimate the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient for rivers in the highland area having water-surface slope, So(%) ranging from 0.1 to 5.7 and bed material grain size ranging from 1mm to 3072mm. Suitability test was carried out again to validate the equation with 24 holdout samples which then the discrepancy ratio obtained a percentage of 58.33%. 2010 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/4269/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/4269/1/TM_SUSIE%20NADYA%20ANAK%20DAVID%20ASEN%20EC%2010_5%201.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Civil Engineering
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topic	TA Engineering Civil engineering TA Engineering. Civil engineering
spellingShingle	TA Engineering Civil engineering TA Engineering. Civil engineering David Asen, Susie Nadya Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
description	At present state-of-knowledge, the selection of roughness coefficients for natural rivers still remains chiefly-an-art and is merely done by referring to typical tabulated values listed in any hydraulic textbooks or handbook manuals alongside with photographs of rivers which the values are mostly unjustified for rivers in other areas of different conditions. Computations that are based solely on assumptions or predictions from secondary sources often result to error in hydraulic design. Despite various studies conducted to quantify the Manning’s n values for various river conditions as happening in developed countries, Malaysia is still lack of such activities. Thus, the present study attempts to derive an equation to estimate the roughness coefficient for rivers specifically located in the highland areas of Malaysia because a proper understanding on rivers should start from its nearest source by ensuring that extensive field database from these rivers are made available for proper quantification of the bed roughness coefficient which would be very useful for future planning of the rivers. Comprehensive field measurements at 29 rivers located in the highland areas throughout Malaysia were conducted which involve data collection and laboratory analysis over an extended period of time. The newly collected database was used to evaluate the existing resistance equations to obtain Manning, Darcy-Weisbach and Chezy resistance coefficients. Suitability checking was carried out by comparing the results of the calculated velocity (Vcalc) with the measured velocity (Vmeas) obtained from field measurements. 30 existing resistance equations were evaluated and checked for their discrepancy ratios within range of 0.5 to 2.0, which none of the equations exceed 50% passing. Therefore, development of an equation was carried out using 77 data. The new equation; f = 1.309(R/d50)-1.86E-03(RS/d50)0.048 presented here was developed through the Multiple Linear Regression Analysis, was found suitable to estimate the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient for rivers in the highland area having water-surface slope, So(%) ranging from 0.1 to 5.7 and bed material grain size ranging from 1mm to 3072mm. Suitability test was carried out again to validate the equation with 24 holdout samples which then the discrepancy ratio obtained a percentage of 58.33%.
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author	David Asen, Susie Nadya
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title	Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
title_short	Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
title_full	Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
title_fullStr	Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
title_full_unstemmed	Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen
title_sort	equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of malaysia / susie nadya david asen
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Equation development for resistance coefficient estimation for selected rivers in the highland areas of Malaysia / Susie Nadya David Asen

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