LARGE SCALE CLEAR-WATER LOCAL PIER SCOUR EXPERIMENTS
This article presents the results of 14 local sediment scour experiments conducted by the University of Florida and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Conte Research Laboratory at the Conte Laboratory in Turners Falls, Massachusetts (USA). The tests were performed with three different diameter circular piles (0.114, 0.305, and 0.914 m), three different uniform cohesionless sediment diameters (0.22, 0.80, and 2.90 mm), and a range of water depths and flow velocities. The tests were performed in the 6.1 m wide, 6.4 m deep, and 38.4 m long flume at the USGS Center. These tests extend local scour data obtained in controlled experiments to prototype size piles and ratios of pile diameter to sediment diameter to 4,155. Supply water for this flow through flume was supplied by a hydroelectric power plant reservoir and the concentration of suspended fine sediment (wash load) could not be controlled. Equilibrium scour depths were found to depend on the wash load concentration.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Sheppard, D M
- Odeh, M
- Glasser, T
- Publication Date: 2004-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 957-963
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Serial:
- Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
- Volume: 130
- Issue Number: 10
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 0733-9429
- Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jhend8
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Critical depth; Equilibrium (Systems); Flow by speed; Piers (Supports); Scour; Silting; Suspended sediments; Velocity measurement
- Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00981429
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 15 2004 12:00AM