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Abstract
Bridge scour is a complex bridge management problem. It is also a difficult forensic engineering challenge as the greatest risk occurs during large flows and flood events, when visual inspection of the bridge piers is often not possible. This paper presents a review of scour prediction and modelling methods, whose results are used to determine the key parameters that scour monitoring systems need to capture. Then, a review of existing monitoring approaches and technologies for scour monitoring is presented. The paper concludes with the proposal of a novel rating system to evaluate different scour monitoring techniques. The new rating system is trialled ex-post for seven previously published bridge scour monitoring case studies to illustrate the use of the new methodology.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 105-117 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Proceedings of the ICE - Forensic Engineering |
Volume | 174 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 2 Mar 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The third author was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Fellowship (EP/R00742X/2). Data Availability Statement
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Bridges
- Foundations
- Floods & floodworks
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Resilience of National Transport Networks to Flood-induced Bridge Failures
Pregnolato, M.
1/11/18 → 31/05/22
Project: Research