Merging Laboratory and Field Data in Bridge Scour
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 119, Issue 10
Abstract
Highway engineers are dealing with a major effort to assess and evaluate our nation's bridges for scour. Advanced technology is urgently needed to make a meaningful impact on this effort. In order to understand the process of scour at bridges, a great number of laboratory experiments have been conducted, particularly in the past 5 to 10 years. The laboratory experiments tend to provide only worst‐case conditions and often do not reflect actual field conditions. In response to this problem, researchers and state and federal highway agencies are collection field data for the purpose of improving and verifying methods of predicting scour. In this paper, current laboratory and field pier scour studies are described and the problem of merging the two data sets is examined.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 119 • Issue 10 • October 1993
Pages: 1176 - 1181
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Copyright © 1993 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Sep 28, 1992
Published online: Oct 1, 1993
Published in print: Oct 1993
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