Spur-dikes are efficient hydraulic structures that made for numerous purposes. They have one end on the stream bank and another extending into current. As a result of existing spur-dikes in course, local scour phenomena usually occur around them, leading to several predicaments which been great concern engineers. For present work, laboratory experiments were carried out measure depths located a...

Ice scour is the most disruptive and widespread physical disturbance that naturally affects the coastal benthos in polar waters, where it creates a mosaic of disturbances in various stages of recolonization. The purpose of this study was to (1) determine the timing and sequence of biotic recovery following ice scour disturbance of soft sediment and (2) test the general hypothesis that ice scour...

Abstract Scouring is a complex process dependent on several factors, and local scour more than general scour. This study was an attempt to predict round bridge piers based in the water stream. Three obstacle shapes were used – circular, round-nosed, elliptical as they are predominant hydraulic structures like piers. For each shape, depth measured around periphery for five gradually increasing d...

Several types of structures are used in Coastal Engineering with the aim of preventing shoreline erosion, such as groynes, detached breakwaters, submerged breakwaters, etc. Submerged breakwaters have the advantage of their minimal visual impact, which has made them ever more popular (Chang & Liou, 2007). When the incoming waves impinge on a submerged breakwater, a process of energy transformati...