Bridge scour depth prediction and levee topping erosion

Bridge scour depth prediction and levee topping erosion

Presenter: Jean-Louis Briaud
Title: Bridge scour depth prediction and levee topping erosion
Date of recording: 23 August 2011
Duration: 01:36:16

Professor Briaud has worked on scour and erosion for the last twenty years and delivered the ASCE Ralph Peck lecture on this topic in 2007.

Agenda

  1. Fundamentals of soils erosion
  2. Measurement of erodibility
  3. The bridge scour problem
  4. Prediction of bridge scour depth
  5. Woodrow Wilson Bridge case history
  6. Levee overtopping
  7. Development of design charts
  8. New Orleans-2005 Katrina hurricane disaster
  9. Mississippi-2008 flood and Midwest levees failures
  10. Conclusions 

 

 

 


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