Scour is the erosion of bed and bank material by flowing water; scour poses a threat to bridge security by undermining piers and abutments over time. In fact, “the most common cause of bridge failures is floods with the scouring of bridge foundations being the most common cause of flood damage” (Richardson et al., 1993). While regular inspections and maintenance reduce the risk of a scourrelate...

Current formulas for calculating scour depth below of a free over fall are mostly deterministic in nature and do not adequately consider the uncertainties of various scouring parameters. A reliability-based assessment of scour, taking into account uncertainties of parameters and coefficients involved, should be performed. This paper studies the reliability of a dam foundation under the threat o...

Prediction of the scour around a group of pile in the field exposed to oscillatory waves is very important for many offshore structure and coastal engineering projects. Conventional predictive formulas for the geometric properties of scour hole, however, are not able to provide sufficiently accurate results. In this paper the ANNs approach is used to predict the scour depth around pile group us...

Wireless MEMS sensors network has been widely used in many fields. In this paper the MEMS pressure sensor is integrated on a sensor board with Zigbee sensor network for real-time local bridge scour depth monitoring during a flood. The wireless MEMS pressure sensor scour monitoring system has been developed and tested in the laboratory. Local scour is one of the major factors for bridge failure....

Scour is the erosion of stream bed or bank material from bridge foundations due to flowing of water. Data logging from sensor and electronic communication systems can monitor scour in real-time to ensure the integrity of bridge structure. A number of parameters are associated with scour, thus different types of sensor are required to measure the individual affecting factor. A simple capacitive ...

It is reported that every year hundreds of bridges were collapsed due to the dynamic forces acting on piers particularly during floods and scour around foundations. Since determination velocity distribution upstream pier directly related with this force, it important predict effect a presence diameter bridge turbulence parameters. In study, time variation point velocities in stream-wise vertica...