Social and economic damages are the most important damages of the bridge failure. Stability problems of such structures against failure and the depth of the abutments are directly related to the amount of the adjusted scour. Economy, reliability and stability have been main concerns regarding designing abutment bridges enhanced preventing scouring. In this study a detailed comparison of the up-...

Pier is the second generation of an industrial strength content management and application framework. Pier is written with objects from top to bottom and it is easily customized to accommodate new requirements. Pier is based on Magritte, a powerful meta-description framework. Pier has proven to be very powerful in the combination with Seaside, to enable easy composition and configuration of int...

Abstract Bridge foundation scour is one of the major problems for bridges in Nepal. Kathmandu Valley, which main economic hub and capital Nepal lies a seismically active zone. In this study, bridge spanning over Bagmati River Valley studied as reference to assess seismic response typical affected by scouring. Modal analysis revealed becomes more flexible when depth 2 m considered. A series push...

Ice cover is a natural phenomenon unique to rivers in cold regions, and its existence one of the reasons for collapse structural foundations bridge piers across rivers. In order understand influence different scouring environments on hydrodynamics sand bed morphology local scour holes around pier foundations, this paper simulates dynamic evolution process tandem combination under open-flow ice-...

There is presently a lack of knowledge of scour progression for complex offshore foundation structures, such as Tripod foundations for offshore wind turbines. Typically, scour is investigated in physical model tests. As an extension, parts of the investigations could be carried out by using numerical methods; however, such numerical methods require that all relevant processes leading to scour a...