Sensitivity analysis of bridge pier scour depth predictive formulae

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 939-951

  Gaudio, Roberto ^a   Tafarojnoruz, Ali ^a   De Bartolo, Samuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bridge pier; Local scour; Prediction and variation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883561868     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.036     Document Type: Article

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