Using a Bed Sill as a Countermeasure for Clear-Water Scour at a Complex Pier with Inclined Columns Footed on Capped Piles

River bridge piers may collapse due to the local scour around their foundations. It is known that local scour is an effect of the three-dimensional flow field that develops near the pier and that the geometric complexity of a non-cylindrical pier may, correspondingly, increase the complexity of the...

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Main Authors: Mahdi Esmaeili Varaki, Negar Tavazo, Alessio Radice
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Hydrology
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/9/4/65