In general the safety of hydraulic structures, particularly dams is often threatened due to the formation of erosion around the foundations as a result of high speeds of the jets leaving the spillways reaching solid rock downstream.The erosion phenomenon involves a complex interaction between processes hydraulic and mechanical. A major problem in developing methods for study of erosion in rock, associated with this understanding of complex physical phenomena involved in the process, most of which can not be described nor tested in scale laboratory.The observation of natural phenomena, the performance evaluation of hydraulic structures, along with performing experiments in laboratory level and the development of analytical models and numbers have contributed greatly to the understanding of the mechanisms involved in the process of erosion.In this context, with the support of the company Eletrobrás Furnas, this paper presents the development of a physical model implemented in geotechnical laboratory at PUC-Rio, which furthers our understanding of physical process of transferring blocks of rocks during erosion, beyond verification and calibration of numerical models to be developed.Initially, it discusses basic aspects of the behavior mechanical and hydraulic fractured rock masses, showing the properties of the discontinuities and the importance of these aspects in behavior of the massive erosive effect.The second chapter presents the object of the present study, that is, the understanding of the phenomenon of erosive fractured rock masses downstream sinks like ski jumping, and discussed aspects basic hydraulic and geomechanical involved and existing methods for the assessment of erosion.The third chapter presents the proposal of the cylindrical cell developed as described important aspects such as choice the type of material, detail and scale of the cell.The next chapter is the primary purpose to present initially different equipment used in the tests with the system developed data acquisition. Is also presented methodology used to perform tests. The penultimate chapter presents a description of the tests, the which sought to better understand the behavior of rock blocks during the erosion process that occurs downstream of spillways. The experimental results obtained by physical model is developed presented, showing that it is an important analytical equipment experimental prediction of erosion downstream spillway, but it can also serve as support for verification and calibration of numerical models to be developed, which can serve as engineering measures to mitigate the erosion phenomenon.