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 ...

Abstract: A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the effects of footing location on the depth of scour. None of the existing pier‐scour equations have provisions for accounting for nonuniform pier configurations; rather ...

Abstract: Bridges that become partially or totally submerged during large floods are subject to pressure-flow scour, a condition where the flow is directed downward and under the bridge deck, creating an increase in flow velocity ...