Contraction scour in compound channels with cohesive soil beds

Bridge scour, which is the removal of bed materials from near the bridge foundations, is observed to be the most predominant cause of bridge failures in the United States. Scour in cohesive soils is greatly different from scour in cohesionless soils owing to the differences in critical shear stresse...

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Main Author: Israel Devadason, Benjamin Praisy
Other Authors: Chang, Kuang-An
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2045
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2045