Abstract: The primary cause of bridge failure in the United States is scour and channel instability around the bridge foundations. The ability to assess channel stability in the vicinity of bridges is needed to alert engineers to ...

Abstract: The Federal Highway Administration recommends that stream stability analyses at bridges over water begin with a Level 1 assessment. Following this assessment of the physical condition of the stream in the vicinity of the ...

Abstract: Rock vanes are single-arm structures angled to the flow with a pitch into the streambed such that the tip of the vane is submerged even during low flow. Vanes have primarily been used in recent years for treatment of bank ...

Abstract: The majority of the bridges in the U.S. National Bridge Inventory (NBI) are built over waterways. Many will experience problems with scour, bank erosion, and channel instability during their design life. A number of studies ...