“…Laboratory experiments have shown an exponential increase in the yield strength of fluid mud with increasing suspended sediment concentration (Krone, 1962(Krone, , 1963Owen, 1970;Hydraulics Research Station, 1979; see also Merckelbach et al, 2002 andDearnaley et al, 2002). The following empirical relationship between sediment concentration and yield strength was determined by Krone (1962):…”