Protection of bridge piers using a sacrificial sill

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water and Maritime Engineering

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-62

  Chiew, Yee Meng ^a   Lim, Siow Yong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bridges; Hydraulics and hydrodynamics; River engineering

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; SCOUR; VELOCITY;

FLOW SKEWNESS;

BRIDGE PIERS;

BRIDGE; PIER; SCOUR PROTECTION; SILL;

EID: 0037368732     PISSN: 14724561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/wame.2003.156.1.53     Document Type: Article

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