The most important causes of bridge failure are local scour. In this study, laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of slot as a protection device in reduction of depth of scour at cylindrical piers under clear water flow conditions. The development time of scour depth at the circular pier with and without a slot as a protection device was conducted. The experimen...

In this study, a new procedure to determine the optimum dimensions for a rectangular collar to minimize the temporal trend of scouring around a pier model is proposed. Unlike previous methods of predicting collar dimensions around a bridge pier, the proposed approach concerns the selection of different collar dimension sizes around a bridge scour in terms of the flume's upstream (Luc/D), downst...

investigation on local scour phenomenon downstream of impinging jets is very complicated. different parameters such as geometry of stream, characteristics of flow and sediments have great influences on the scour phenomenon. the present study is preceded to numerical modeling of scouring by impinging jet via ssiim 2 model founded on a physical model tests. the numerical model is calibrated for r...

Estimating maximum scour depth is normally required in order to determine the depth of  bridge piles. The present paper uses the SSIIM Software which considers flow and sediment equations in a three dimensional manner. The software models flow field around circular bridge pile by resolving Navier-Stokes three-dimensional equations and k-  method, and by temporary solution of flow field and cont...

j1 Christian Chreties MSc Assistant Professor, Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingenierı́a Ambiental (IMFIA), Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay j2 Luis Teixeira PhD Full Professor, Instituto de Mecánica de los Fluidos e Ingenierı́a Ambiental (IMFIA), Engineering School, Universidad de la República, Uruguay j3 Gonzalo Simarro PhD Associate Researcher, Instituto de Cie...

Incubating salmonid eggs in streambeds are often threatened by deposition of fine sediment within the gravel. To relate sedimentation of spawning gravel beds to sediment transport, infiltration of fine sediment (<2 mm in diameter) into clean gravel beds, bed material size distributions, scour-fill depths, and sediment transport during 10 storm flow events were measured in three streams of north...

Seabed offshore pipelines are widely applied to carry fluid over long distances of the seafloor. The design is conducted bear quite a few environmental loading circumstances in order provide well-guarded and reliable transition. Fluid leakage pipeline vibration due failure prime causes accidental catastrophes. Scour phenomena occur around currents and/or wave conditions, consequently causing su...