The science behind scour at bridge foundations: A review

A Pizarro, S Manfreda, E Tubaldi - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Foundation scour is among the main causes of bridge collapse worldwide, resulting in
significant direct and indirect losses. A vast amount of research has been carried out during …

Risk-informed asset management to tackle scouring on bridges across transport networks

M Sasidharan, AK Parlikad… - Structure and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Scour is one of the main causes of bridge failures resulting in significant macro-economic
impacts, often beyond the direct costs of infrastructure damage. Given the pressure to …

Invited perspectives: Challenges and future directions in improving bridge flood resilience

E Tubaldi, CJ White, E Patelli… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
Bridges are critical infrastructure components of road and rail transport networks. A large
number of these critical assets cross or are adjacent to waterways and floodplains and are …

Local scour and sediment deposition at bridge piers during floods

O Link, M García, A Pizarro, H Alcayaga… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
The local scour and sediment deposition at a bridge pier during flood waves is analyzed to
investigate the effects of different flow and sediment regimes (regulated and unregulated …

Understanding the entropy-based morphological variability and energy expenditure mechanism of a large braided river system

KK Nandi, C Pradhan, SK Padhee, S Dutta… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the morphological erraticism for large braided river systems is still a
challenging issue in the present era of fluvial geomorphology. The present paper reports …

Spatial distribution of tracers for optical sensing of stream surface flow

A Pizarro, SF Dal Sasso, M Perks… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
River monitoring is of particular interest for our society that is facing increasing complexity in
water management. Emerging technologies have contributed to opening new avenues for …

Quantification of modelling uncertainties in bridge scour risk assessment under multiple flood events

A Pizarro, E Tubaldi - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Local scour is a dynamic process evolving during the lifetime of bridges as a result of the
changes in hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. Current approaches for scour risk …

A novel extreme gradient boosting algorithm based model for predicting the scour risk around bridge piers: application to French railway bridges

T Wang, P Reiffsteck, C Chevalier, Z Zhu… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Bridge failures inevitably cause severe social consequences in terms of the economic
losses or even human fatalities. Scour is one of the leading causes for bridge failures. Due …

Experimental investigation of local scour around cylindrical pile foundations in a double-layered sediment under current flow

C Wang, Y Yuan, F Liang, J Tao - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Scour is a natural phenomenon that occurs when the soil around piles erodes, and it is
significantly affected by the characteristics of the seabed or riverbed materials, the nearby …

A review on hydrodynamics of horseshoe vortex at a vertical cylinder mounted on a flat bed and its implication to scour at a cylinder

AH Gazi, MS Afzal - Acta Geophysica, 2020 - Springer
A comprehensive review of the local scour due to vortical flow around a cylindrical bridge
pier under steady current is presented in this paper. The mechanism of the formation of …