A new practical method to simulate flood-induced bridge pier scour—a case study of Mingchu bridge piers on the Cho-Shui river

• Main Authors: Hong, Jian-Hao, Guo, Wen-Dar, Chiew, Yee-Meng, Chen, Cheng-Hsin
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: General Scour; Bridge Pier Scour; DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89978; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46446
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The evolution of bridge pier scour is very important for bridge safety warning and assessment. During typhoon seasons in Taiwan, the torrential river flow often causes scour monitoring instruments to fail in their attempt to measure the temporal variations of pier scour depths. To better understand...