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
- Fundamentals of soils erosion
- Measurement of erodibility
- The bridge scour problem
- Prediction of bridge scour depth
- Woodrow Wilson Bridge case history
- Levee overtopping
- Development of design charts
- New Orleans-2005 Katrina hurricane disaster
- Mississippi-2008 flood and Midwest levees failures
- Conclusions