An ancillary to feed dry sediment directly into the FC80 channel flow from above.
The apparatus sits on top of the channel, the hopper is filled with dry sediment (sand). The below the hopper is a variable amplitude vibrating plate that causes the sand to move along the chute from which it drops into the flow in the channel.
The rate at which the sediment falls onto the chute from the hopper is adjustable.
An 80 mm wide, 7.5-metre long flow and sediment transport channel with a starter kit of models and instruments. It provides students with the ability to study the varying effects of sediment transport, bedform dynamics and fluid flow around weirs and other objects in an open channel.