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Abutment Scour Analysis

Current techniques of predicting bridge abutment scour are empirical, not theoretical.  The Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory is involved in an effort to describe abutment scour at bridge sites in theoretical terms.

The attached text file contains part of the scour data being analyzed to develop the theoretical basis for predicting scour.  When results are available, they will be presented here.

Anyone wishing to use this data should import it into their choice of software for analysis.

Abutment Scour Data

 
This page last modified on 08/03/07
 

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