Download or read book Local Scour Around Bridge Piers in Pressure Flow written by Laila M. Abed and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Local Scour Around Differently Shaped Bridge Piers An Experimental Investigation written by Kaleem Afzal and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Physics - Mechanics, University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, language: English, abstract: The objective of the study is to conduct laboratory model testing to investigate and compare scour hole depth of the diamond, square and elliptical scaled model of bridge piers in a cohesion less bedding material under clear water and to propose the most efficient cross section of the bridge pier, having less Local scour around piers under steady clear-water condition was studied experimentally for a variety of configuration, including different sizes and shapes of piers. Total number of forty experiments were performed in the flume using diamond, square and elliptical shape. The scouring around the square shape was found maximum and at elliptical shape was the least. The main reason was obstruction in flow area that was more in case of the square and less in case of the elliptical shape. However, the diamond shaped has the intermediate scouring under same condition. Local scour is a complex phenomenon involving three-dimensional flow, typically developed around piers founded in movable bed rivers. Local scour can lead to partial failure or to collapse of bridge piers because of the high flood velocity. The cost of large bridges, with common and special complex piers, justifies carrying out an accurate prediction of scour depth, for both economic and safety reasons, which in turn leads to the interest of hydraulic engineers in predicting the equilibrium scour depth.

Download or read book Stream Stability and Scour at Highway Bridges written by Everett V. Richardson and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Water Resources Engineering (Hydraulics) Divsion of ASCE. This collection contains 75 papers and 321 abstracts presented at conferences sponsored by the Water Resources Engineering (Hydraulics) Division of ASCE from 1991 through 1998. The collection contains many new and expanded versions of the original papers and is designed to assist the practitioner with the concepts in evaluating stream instability and scour at bridges. Topics include: history of bridge scour research; bridge scour determination; stream stability and geomorphology; construction scour; instrumentation for measuring and monitoring; field measurement; computer and physical modeling of bridge scour; scour at culverts; and economic and risk analysis. One important paper contains 384 field measurements of local scour at piers made by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Download or read book Experimental Study of Local Scour Around Side by Side Bridge Piers Under Ice Covered Flow Conditions written by Jueyi Sui and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precise prediction of maximum scour depth (MSD) around piers under ice-covered conditions is crucial for the safe design of the bridge foundation. Due to the lack of information for local scour under ice-covered flow condition, it is extremely hard to give proper estimation of MSD. In the current study, a set of flume experiments were completed to investigate local scour around four pairs of circular bridge piers with nonuniform bed materials under open channel, smooth and rough ice cover conditions. Three different bed materials with median particle size of 0.47, 0.50, and 0.58 mm were used to simulate natural river conditions. Regardless of pier size, the maximum scour depths were observed in front of the piers under all flow conditions. Additionally, a smaller pier size and a larger space between piers yield a smaller scour depth. Results showed that the maximum scour depth decreases with increase in the grain size of armor layer. The distribution of vertical velocity shows that the strength of downfall velocity is the greatest under rough ice cover. Empirical equations were developed to estimate the maximum scour depth around side-by-side bridge piers under both open-channel and ice-covered flow conditions.

Download or read book Experimental and Numerical Study of Local Scour Around Side by side Bridge Piers Under Ice covered Conditions written by Mohammad Reza Namaee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local scour around piers and abutments is one of the main causes of the collapse of many bridges constructed inside rivers. Many researchers have conducted various studies to predict the maximum depth of a scour hole around bridge piers and abutments. However, most of them have been done in small-scale laboratory flumes and specifically for the open channel condition. Besides, most of the existing research on bridge piers uses uniform sediment which is not an appropriate representative of natural river systems. This can result in excessively conservative design values for scour in low risk or non-critical hydrologic conditions. The most severe cases of bridge pier scouring occur in cold regions when the surface of water turns into ice in which, an additional boundary layer is being added to the water surface, which leads to significant changes in the flow field and scour pattern around bridge piers. Ice cover also causes the maximum flow velocity to move closer to the channel bed.

Download or read book Design Relationships for Maximum Local Scour Depth for Bridge Pier Groups written by Mehrdad Nazariha and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of local scour at pier groups has been conducted with the aim of developing design recommendations and scour depth prediction equations for the bridge pier groups. A comprehensive series of steady uniform flow experiments was performed on groups of 2, 3, 4, and 6 model piers. All tests were conducted under clear-water scour conditions. Parameters governing local scour depth around bridge piers include: flow characteristics, sediment properties, and pier size and shape. The effects of these parameters on the maximum local scour depth for a single pier (D$\sb{\rm s}$), have been thoroughly investigated in the past. However, when design criteria developed for single piers are applied directly to pier groups, this approach ignores the following important group effects: (1) sheltering, (2) reinforcement, and (3) horse-shoe vortex (HSV) compression. Furthermore, the group effects will alter with changes in pier spacing, S, and flow angle of attack, $\beta$. This study, which investigates the local scouring process for the aforementioned groups of model bridge piers, and presents design relationships for predicting the corresponding maximum local scour depths, is an attempt to address this limitation in current design practice. Initially the local scour was examined for five different single pier diameters (0.0127 m, 0.018 m, 0.025 m, 0.033 m and 0.05 m). Having established single pier relationships, groups of 2, 3, 4, and 6 equally spaced piers were examined, while altering alignment to the flow and separation distances. For piers in line with the flow direction, downstream piers are sheltered by the upstream ones resulting in reducing scour depth around downstream piers. This effect diminishes with the increasing $\beta$ if there is only one row of piers i.e., 2 and 3 pier groups. In the case of 2 rows of piers aligned to the flow direction (i.e., 4- and 6-pier groups), there is a specific range of $\beta$ in which downstream piers are exposed to the flow. As $\beta$ increases, depending on pier spacing, the piers of one row may shelter the downstream piers of the other row. The reinforcement effect is significant only for small ratios of pier spacing/ pier diameter (S/d) when $\beta \le$ 10$\sp0$. In these ranges of S/d and $\beta$, the front piers are scoured more than that of a single pier. Moreover, the score depth of downstream piers, which are less than that of a single pier, increases with increasing S/d. The compressed (HSV) arms affect the local scour depth significantly if piers are staggered and S/d $\le$ 5. In this range of S/d, the HSV arms are intensified, resulting in a deeper scour hole. However, this effect also becomes insignificant with increasing S/d. The data obtained for each pier group were analysed, using a multiple regression model, to develop local scour depth prediction equations for the front, middle, and rear piers. The regression model includes two important dimensionless parameters ($\beta$ and S/d) associated with group effects, as regressors. The proposed prediction equations estimated the observed data and similar-type published data reasonably well, within marginal errors. From a general practical view-point, the number of prediction equations was reduced to two equations for all pier groups: one for the front piers and the second one for the downstream piers (i.e. combined middle and rear piers).

Download or read book Scouring written by H.N.C. Breusers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and technical data concerning scouring/erosion caused by water fl in rivers and streams. More specifically, how certain structures exaggerate this natural process by restricting water flow, causing constriction and loc scour. Material presented is from both field studies and laboratories

Download or read book Scour Around Bridges written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Surface Drainage of Highways and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scour Around Circular Bridge Piers at High Froude Numbers written by Subhash Chandra Jain and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Local Scour Around Bridge Piers Under Steady and Unsteady Flow Conditions written by Tony Andrew Bennetts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Physical Modeling of Local Scour Around Complex Bridge Piers written by Seung Oh Lee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local scour around bridge foundations has been recognized as one of the main causes of bridge failures. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationships among field, laboratory, and numerical data for the purpose of improving scour prediction methods for complex bridge piers. In this study, three field sites in Georgia were selected for continuous monitoring and associated laboratory models were fabricated with physical scale ratios that modeled the full river and bridge cross sections to consider the effect of river bathymetry and bridge geometry. Three different sizes of sediment and several geometric scales of the bridge pier models were used in this study to investigate the scaling effect of relative sediment size, which is defined as the ratio of the pier width to the median sediment size. The velocity field for each bridge model was measured by the acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) to explain the complicated hydrodynamics of the flow field around bridge piers as guided by the results from a numerical model. In each physical model with river bathymetry, the comparison between the results of laboratory experiments and the measurements of prototype bridge pier scour showed good agreement for the maximum pier scour depth at the nose of the pier as well as for the velocity distribution upstream of each bridge pier bent. Accepted scour prediction formulae were evaluated by comparison with extensive laboratory and field data. The effect of relative sediment size on the local pier scour depth was examined and a modified relationship between the local pier scour depth and the relative sediment size was presented. A useful methodology for designing physical models was developed to reproduce and predict local scour depth around complex piers considering Froude number similarity, flow intensity, and relative sediment size.

Download or read book Pier Streamlining as a Bridge Local Scour Countermeasure and the Underlying Scour Mechanism written by Junhong Li and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge local scour has long been identified as the most critical cause to bridge failures. Countermeasures that are commonly used nowadays still have disadvantages to some extent. This work is among one of the ongoing efforts to explore reliable alternatives. Inspired by the streamlined body of boxfish and blue shark, this study introduced streamlining features to the bridge piers in order to reduce the erosive forces locally. Based on the excess shear stress criteria, the Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) numerical model was employed to optimize the streamlined features through parametric studies. The maximum bed shear stress around the optimal streamlined pier was shown to be reduced by ~34% as compared to that around a non-streamlined pier. Further simulation using the advanced Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) model revealed that the streamlined pier also helped reduce the locally turbulence dynamics, which played a significant role in local scour. A set of small-scale flume tests were then conducted in the laboratory to characterize the flow physics and scour behavior of uniform Ottawa sand around piers with various streamlined extents. The experimental results further confirmed the effectiveness of pier streamlining in scour reduction. The maximum scour depth around the streamlined pier was reduced by ~66% as compared to that around a non-streamlined pier. Through monitoring the pore pressure response within sand, the role of vortex-induced excess pore pressure that plays in the scour mechanism was discussed. The vortex-induced excess pore pressure also helped to partially account for an interestingly counterintuitive observation from an independent experiment: the local scour resistance was a slightly decreasing function of the granular bulk density. Finally, a CFD-DEM (Discrete Element Model) two-way coupled model was established to simulate the scour behavior of uniform spherical particles around an oblong pier. The two-phase model successfully captured the characteristic local scour behaviors, and thus may serve as a platform of great potential to further investigate the scour mechanism at microscale in the future. Tremendous efforts were also made to review applications of the emerging two-phase numerical models to the broad flow-induced erosion problems.

Download or read book The Impact of Ice Conditions on Local Scour Around Bridge Piers written by Faye Hirshfield and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ice cover imposes an additional boundary layer on a river channel and can influence sediment transport around bridge structures. The main objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of how ice cover is related to local scour around bridge piers. A set of flume experiments were completed investigating local scour around bridge piers under open channel, smooth ice and rough ice cover conditions. Three different non-uniform sediments were used with D50??2019?s of 0.47, 0.50 and 0.58 mm. The location of the average maximum velocity under rough ice cover ranged from 0.36-0.43H and for smooth cover was 0.41H, with depth (H) measured from the channel bed to water surface. Turbulent intensity was greater under ice cover than open channel conditions. Local pier scour under rough and smooth ice cover was on average 37 and 20 percent greater than open channel scour depth respectively. The maximum scour depth always occurred at the pier face. Greater pier scour under ice cover is related to larger streamwise and downward flow velocities at the pier face under rough ice cover. The scour hole velocity for rough and smooth ice cover was 33 and 15 percent greater than open channel scour hole velocity respectively. Under all channel covers an armour layer formed in the scour hole. For all experiments, as the armour layer size increased, the maximum local scour depth decreased. A critical assessment of current bridge research and construction was also conducted in order to address how this study contributes to modern day bridge design. It was found that this study addresses current knowledge gaps in bridge manual used in North America. Specifically, study results concerning scour hole depth under ice cover and scour hole flow fields under ice cover are important contributions to the field of bridge hydraulics."--Leaf ii.

Download or read book Bridge Hydraulics written by Dr Les Hamill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design of bridges across rivers and streams is a major component of many civil engineering projects. The size of waterways must be kept reasonably small for reasons of economy and yet be large enough to allow floods to pass. Bridge Hydraulics is the first book to consider both arched and rectangular waterway openings in detail and to describe a

Download or read book Bridge Scour written by Bruce W. Melville and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 2000 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of scour and bridge foundations - both a handy reference text and a manual for the practicing bridge designer."--Publisher.

Download or read book The Effects of Pressure Flow on Local Scour in Bridge Openings written by Larry A. Arneson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scour Around Bridge Piers at High Flow Velocities written by Edward Ernst Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: