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Application Of Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery To Bridge Scour Evaluation, Xiaoyan Zhao
Application Of Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery To Bridge Scour Evaluation, Xiaoyan Zhao
LSU Master's Theses
The overall goal of this research is to evaluate the applicability of the existing HEC-18 method to Louisiana bridges that are mostly situated on cohesive soils and hence to develop a more reliable design method for scour depth and scour rate prediction. Pier research in sandy soils and cohesive soils shows that the sandy soils are known to erode particle by particle, while cohesive soils usually erode in clumps rather than individual particles, which is caused by from the different bonding mechanisms between sandy soils and cohesive soils. Because the bonding in cohesive soils is so complex, the prediction of …