Experimental study of scour around circular and elongated bridge piers with and without pier slot

This work describes an experimental study of clear water scour around bridge piers, placed in a cohesionless bed of sediments. The use of pier slot as a flow-altering countermeasure against bridge scour is evaluated, in the case of circular and elongated piers. Four piers with 20 mm of transversal d...

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Main Author: Azevedo, M. L. (author)
Other Authors: Leite, Francisca Luís Ferreira da Costa (author), Lima, M. M. C. L. (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/31390
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/31390