Scour is a significant cause of bridge failure, and resulting closures are likely to generate disruption infrastructure networks. The management scour-susceptible bridges challenge for improving transport resilience, but tends be heuristic qualitative. Such assessments often suffer from insufficient knowledge key factors require assumptions, which may increase their estimation relative uncertai...

Downfall flows from different outlet hydraulic structures such as culverts and jetsthrowingtothe erodible downstream bed cause scour hole and changes in the downstream bed topography. Therefore,by performing some physical modeling tests on culvert jet flow under different angles, changes in the downstream bed topography under the effect of different parameters such as flow rate, depth of the ta...

rade control structures are used to control bed erosion in steep small rivers mostly in the mountains. Scour downstream of this structure can lead to failure. Over the past years, the effect of different variables on this phenomena have been studied, however the effect of upward seepage which is common due to head difference of the banks water table or water surface level between the upstream a...

Restoration of sustainable geomorphic processes that create floodplain topography through development of sand-splay complexes at intentional breaches is one method to promote variability in physical structure needed for habitat restoration. The topography of splay complexes provides a range of floodplain elevations that creates local variability in (i) inundation duration and frequency and dept...

One of the important issues in hydraulic engineering is inspection of local scour depth around bridge pier. Using piles is one of the ways for confronting local scour and erosion. In this study, the experiments were conducted in an 8m long, 0.5m deep and 0.25m wide flume. And the effectof using piles and number of them observed on the amount of scour in three different Frude numbers. The shape ...

Paute-Cardenillo (owned by Celec Ep-Hidropaute) is a dam with maximum height 135 m located in the Paute River in Ecuador. Its hydroelectric production will be integrated at the National Electric System of Ecuador with an installed capacity of 600 MW which will produce 3300 GWh per year. To evaluate the stability and safety of the structure, it is necessary to ascertain the shape and dimensions ...

This paper investigates the potential of support vector machines based regression approach to model the local scour around bridge piers using field data. A dataset of consisting of 232 pier scour measurements taken from BSDMS were used for this analysis. Results obtained by using radial basis function and polynomial kernel based Support vector regressionwere comparedwith four empirical relation...

Ice stratigraphy from deep-penetrating radar data collected during the 2002 US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US-ITASE) traverse shows evidence of a significant erosion surface and drift-filled basin related to a previously undiscovered 1400m subglacial mountain between Hercules Dome (878420 S, 1088W) and South Pole. The 3MHz radar profile crosses three subglacial mountain...

Foundation scour has long been a concern in the offshore wind industry as it poses great threat to safety of turbines (OWTs). However, current understanding this issue is still insufficient. This because many farm factors and their coupling effect on have not fully investigated. Therefore, two phases experimental studies are conducted paper investigate how monopile vibration, water flow, interm...

Accurate prediction of sediment scour hole dimensions downstream of hydraulic structures, e.g. the outlet bucket, is a complex and not straight forward engineering problem encountered worldwide. Because of the complexities of the study, its comprehensive, simultaneous including water flow,  sediment and applying all of the effective variables involved in scouring it is not easy possible. Dimens...