Failures barrages or parts of them may be expected when excessive scour patterns are observed downstream of such structures. Severe and excessive scour may be largely due to unsymmetric operation of gates especially when a multi-vents barrage or regulator is being considered. Previous investigations proved that the scour patterns downstream hydraulic structures are functions of the bottom veloc...

Scour-induced sediment erosion poses a significant threat to the safety and longevity of infrastructure, including bridges, wind turbines, elevated buildings, coastal infrastructure. Despite well-known destructive consequences scour, accurate models that capture complexity its dynamics remain elusive, impeding development effective countermeasures. We provide comprehensive review existing liter...

Observations of bridge abutment scour lead to a practical new approach for estimating realistic scour IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering depths at bridge abutments. Prior design approaches usually led to unrealistically deep estimates of abutment scour depth. The observations presented stem from flume experiments conducted with abutments with approach embankments subject to a range of erodibilit...

The paper describes the range of scour types that may occur at bridge abutments, and addresses the extensive attendant difficulties confronting accurate estimation of abutment-scour depth. The difficulties, which include similitude aspects of laboratory experiments on scour at bridge abutments, complicate the development of reliable scour-estimation relationships. In a practical sense, the diff...

Severe foundation scour may occur around monopile foundations of offshore wind turbines due to currents and waves. The so-called p-y curves method is suggested in the existing design recommendations to determine the behavior of monopiles unprotected against scour and the reduction of effective soil stress is accounted for by the extreme scour depth. This conservative design approach does not co...

Abstract Foundation scour can have a detrimental effect on the performance of bridge piers, inducing significant reduction lateral capacity footing and accumulation permanent settlement rotation. Although hydraulic processes responsible for foundation are nowadays well known, predicting their mechanical consequences is still challenging. Indeed, its impact failure mechanisms developing around h...

Abstract The effect of various parameters flow, sediment and geometric features the bridge on depth shape scour hole occurred underneath a deck model without pier was investigated by series experiments conducted in flume under partially fully submerged flow clear water conditions. were performed with factors such as approach depth, discharge, size, degree submergence, girder location depth. A t...