Control of Scour at Bridge Piers by a Downstream Bed Sill

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Grimaldi, Carmelo ^a   Gaudio, Roberto ^a   Calomino, Francesco ^a   Cardoso, António H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCOUR; BRIDGE PIERS; EROSION; PIERS;

CIRCULAR BRIDGES; DIMENSIONLESS GROUPS; DOWN-STREAM; FLOW CONDITION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCAL SCOURING; SCOUR DEPTH; SCOUR HOLES; SEDIMENT MOTION; UNIFORM SEDIMENTS;

BRIDGE PIERS; SCOUR;

CIRCULAR BRIDGES; COUNTER-MEASURES; EXPERIMENTATION; FLOW CONDITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCAL SCOURING; SCOUR DEPTHS; SCOUR HOLES; SHORT DISTANCES; UNIFORM SEDIMENTS;

BEDLOAD; BRIDGE; EROSION CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; PIER; SCOUR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILL; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 57949109873     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: 19437900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2009)135:1(13)     Document Type: Article

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