This study is part of a project with the AFB (French Agency for Biodiversity), that aims to have abetter understanding of the remobilization of the sediment previously trapped in dams. After dambreaks, an amount of sediment is deposited downstream of the dam, this sediment being then setin motion on a bed of multi-scale immobile grains (gravels, rocks, boulders). The aim of this thesis work is to study how coarse immobile grains can have an effect on the different scales of sediment transport. Thanks to three experimental studies in laboratory flumes, in which immobile coarse grains are represented by a canopy of hemispheres, several effects of the roughness elements on sediment transport are emphasised. A preliminary study first aims to un...