SAM Hydraulic Design Package for Channels

SAM, a hydraulic design package with an integrated system of programs, provides hydraulic sediment transport, and sediment yield calculations for the design of stable channels. Using SAM, civil engineers, geologists, scientists and others can rapidly calculate channel size in both fixed and mobile streams. SAM meets engineers' need for a qualitative, easy-to-use methodology for making analyses associated with the preliminary design of flood-control channels and stream restoration projects. The package is especially helpful in preliminary screening of alternatives where funds for more extensive investigations are not available. The SAM package was developed through the Flood Damage Reduction Research Program and is designed to run on PC computers. The software is currently available in Windows, and is sometimes called SAMwin. Three main modules of the program can be used separately or in tandem for various hydraulic design situations.