Erosion through water flow (called scour) causes the majority of bridge collapses in the U.S and was responsible for the levee failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It has been difficult ...

Scour, or erosion of soil around structures due to water flow, is responsible for a wide range of critical infrastructure failures -- from unstable bridges to the levees that gave way in the wake ...

New tools and process workflows incorporating geophysical site investigation are available to make data-driven evaluations of bridge scour and erosion for risk assessment and resilient design.

Californians will soon pay more at the pump, in part to fix more than 200 bridges at risk of erosion Kevin Flora, an engineer with Caltrans, looks for bridge scour, which is the degradation caused ...

On that day a multidisciplinary team converged on Allegheny Lock and Dam 4 (AR4) to investigate potential concerns with erosion of the riverbed, also referred to as scour, downstream of the dam.

A prototype optical sensor thought to be capable of providing an early warning if a bridge is at risk of scour - the number one cause of bridge collapse globally - has been developed by a Queen’s ...

Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Prof. P.V.G.D. Prasad Reddy, inaugurated an international workshop on ‘Scour and Erosion’, being organised online by the International Society for Soil ...

Scour, in an engineering context, refers to the erosion of soil surrounding bridge foundations such as piers and abutments.

High lake levels, like we have currently, can make erosion worse. When shelf ice coverage is too broad, waves can get under the ice and scour the bottom. That sand can become embedded in the shelf ...

Balmoral HexDefence, an integrated scour protection and flow reduction system, minimizes offshore operational costs and potential cable failure. The HexDefence structure eliminates the requirement to ...

New tools and process workflows incorporating geophysical site investigation are available to make data-driven evaluations of bridge scour and erosion for risk assessment and resilient design. TRB ...