Developing A Bridge Scour Warning System
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Developing A Bridge Scour Warning System
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Author : C. Bryan Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Developing A Bridge Scour Warning System written by C. Bryan Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Flooding and scour can be major threats to the integrity of bridges. During flood events, scour at bridge piers and abutments can undermine the foundations of the bridge, causing significant damage or even total structure loss. Because scour occurs below the water level during a large flood event, it can be difficult to detect and may go unnoticed unless a targeted inspection is performed. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is required by federal mandate to establish and maintain a bridge scour plan of action for all scour-critical bridges in the state. A plan of action can include the implementation of scour countermeasures to protect and stabilize a bridge and/or scour monitoring. Bridge scour monitoring presents multiple challenges for bridge owners, including state Departments of Transportation (DOTs). This research project surveyed in situ and ex situ monitoring options with particular attention on warning system options in the public domain. In situ monitoring can include portable and/or fixed devices for detecting bridge scour. Ex situ monitoring implies a statewide system that issues scour alerts to trigger bridge closures and/or inspections based on hydrologic conditions (rainfall and/or streamflow). A systematic statewide system would be preferable for monitoring scour-capable events at bridges across the state. KDOT could leverage existing United States Geological Survey (USGS) and National Weather Service (NWS) tools to monitor scour-critical bridges or pursue a vendor to offer a turn-key solution. For critical locations, additional measures could be implemented at specific sites to offer more information or a higher level of monitoring.
Sensor Development And Response Analysis For Bridge Scour Monitoring And Prognosis
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Author : Faezeh Azhari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Sensor Development And Response Analysis For Bridge Scour Monitoring And Prognosis written by Faezeh Azhari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Bridges, as well as off-shore wind turbines and other marine structures, are susceptible to failures due to local scour, which is a dynamic phenomenon that is caused by flowing water removing the bed material from around piles, piers, and abutments. If extended over a critical depth, scour can jeopardize the stability and safety of overwater bridges. In fact, scour is the predominant cause of overwater bridge failures in North America and around the world. Monitoring, as part of bridge maintenance, can prevent scour-induced damage and failure by continuously measuring the extent of scour so that preventative measures can be taken in a timely manner. Over the years, numerous sensing systems have been developed for monitoring bridge scour by measuring scour depth at locations near bridge piers and abutments. Due to the limitations of periodic inspections conducted by trained divers and by using portable instruments, fixed monitoring systems have become the viable solution. Existing fixed scour sensors include sonar systems, float-out devices, and tilt meters, to name a few. These systems each offer unique advantages, but have limitations (e.g., high costs, low reliability, limited accuracy, etc.) that have restricted their implementation in practice. Therefore, attempts to develop more efficient monitoring schemes continue. In this study two novel scour sensing schemes were evaluated. The first uses driven piezoelectric rods to continuously measure scour depth; and in the second, buried dissolved oxygen (DO) optodes detect scour at discrete depths. Laboratory flume experiments were conducted to validate the proposed sensing systems. In the first sensing scheme, piezoelectric rods are driven into the stream bed at a location where scour depths are wanted. As the scour hole extends, the exposed length of the rod changes, causing the flow-induced voltage signal acquired from the sensor to also vary. Scour depth at the sensor location is determined based on the fact that the natural frequency of the cantilevered sensing rod is inversely related to its length. Prototype piezoelectric rods, in which a poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) polymer strip forms the main sensing component, were designed and developed. Following various preliminary validation tests, extensive laboratory experiments were performed in which the in-house piezoelectric sensing rods were driven into the soil surrounding a mock bridge pier inside a flume simulating scour conditions. The piezo-sensor was calibrated through eigenfrequency analyses. The second sensing system utilized commercially available miniature DO probes. DO levels are very low in streambed sediments, as compared to the standard level of oxygen in flowing water. Therefore, scour depths can be determined by installing sensors to monitor DO levels at various depths along the buried length of a bridge pier or abutment. The measured DO is negligible when a sensor is buried but would increase significantly once scour occurs and exposes the sensor to flowing water. A set of experiments was conducted in which four dissolved oxygen probes were embedded at different soil depths in the vicinity of a mock bridge pier inside a laboratory flume simulating scour conditions. The measured DO jumped to water DO levels once scour exposed the sensing tip of the probes to flowing water, thereby providing discrete measurements of the maximum scour depth. The sensing concepts behind both scour monitoring schemes were confirmed through comparing the detected and observed scour depths. The PVDF-based sensors provide continuous scour depth measurements, as opposed to discrete ones offered by the DO sensing system. Both sensing schemes were also able to detect any subsequent refilling of the scour hole through the deposition of sediments. Following separate analyses of the results, future research is suggested for the two sensing techniques to gain a better understanding of their advantages, shortcomings, and potential applications. In addition to developing and validating the aforementioned scour sensing schemes, research was conducted aimed at creating a practical warning-time based framework for scour sensor response interpretation. First, the general form of the framework, applicable to a wide range of damage detection operations, was developed. The purpose of structural health monitoring (SHM) is to diagnose any damage or malfunction in an engineering system in a timely manner. Timely detection implies that sufficient warning time is given to perform required maintenance to prevent structural failure. Warning time information is therefore very useful in the design and planning of maintenance procedures. The framework developed as part of this research, is a simple and practical tool for predicting warning times given detected damage (i.e. sensor outputs). The framework incorporates a probabilistic analysis of damage progression such that the uncertainty in warning times can also be determined and used for risk-based decision making. To demonstrate the framework’s applicability to scour monitoring, a detailed example was considered, where the progression of bridge scour was obtained through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using the software Flow-3D. The resulting diagrams from the framework can be used as an effective tool in estimating the warning time and the uncertainty in the warning time given a detected scour depth. The warning information is extremely useful in identifying and planning the required maintenance procedures based on the available resources.
Bridge Scour Evaluation
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Author : John Kattell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Bridge Scour Evaluation written by John Kattell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Scour at bridges categories.
Stream Stability And Scour At Highway Bridges
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Author : Everett V. Richardson
language : en
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Stream Stability And Scour At Highway Bridges written by Everett V. Richardson and has been published by ASCE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Sponsored by the Water Resources Engineering (Hydraulics) Divsion of ASCE. This collection contains 75 papers and 321 abstracts presented at conferences sponsored by the Water Resources Engineering (Hydraulics) Division of ASCE from 1991 through 1998. The collection contains many new and expanded versions of the original papers and is designed to assist the practitioner with the concepts in evaluating stream instability and scour at bridges. Topics include: history of bridge scour research; bridge scour determination; stream stability and geomorphology; construction scour; instrumentation for measuring and monitoring; field measurement; computer and physical modeling of bridge scour; scour at culverts; and economic and risk analysis. One important paper contains 384 field measurements of local scour at piers made by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Knowledge Formalization For The Development Of A Bridge Scour And Stream Stability Expert System
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Author : Suzanne B. Pollon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Knowledge Formalization For The Development Of A Bridge Scour And Stream Stability Expert System written by Suzanne B. Pollon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Bridges categories.
Monitoring Scour Critical Bridges
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Author : Beatrice E. Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Release Date : 2009
Monitoring Scour Critical Bridges written by Beatrice E. Hunt and has been published by Transportation Research Board this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
Stream Instability Bridge Scour And Countermeasures A Field Guide For Bridge Inspectors
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Author : Transportation Dept., Federal Highway Administration
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date :
Stream Instability Bridge Scour And Countermeasures A Field Guide For Bridge Inspectors written by Transportation Dept., Federal Highway Administration and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Technology & Engineering categories.
FHWA Publication No. FHWA-NHI-08-0106. February 2009. Explains the behavior of rivers in order to recognize changing conditions associated with unstable streams or scour at bridge foundations that may threaten the stability of the bridge. Provides tips and guidance on what to look for with regard to both stream instability, including lateral instability, degradation, and aggradation, and scour at bridges, including contraction scour, pier scour, and abutment scour. Also covered are plans of action and countermeasures, such as monitoring, flood watches, bridge closures, and river training countermeasures.
Report No Fhwa Rd
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Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Report No Fhwa Rd written by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Current Perspectives And New Directions In Mechanics Modelling And Design Of Structural Systems
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Author : Alphose Zingoni
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2022-09-05
Current Perspectives And New Directions In Mechanics Modelling And Design Of Structural Systems written by Alphose Zingoni and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-05 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 September 2022). The topics featured may be clustered into six broad categories that span the themes of mechanics, modelling and engineering design: (i) mechanics of materials (elasticity, plasticity, porous media, fracture, fatigue, damage, delamination, viscosity, creep, shrinkage, etc); (ii) mechanics of structures (dynamics, vibration, seismic response, soil-structure interaction, fluid-structure interaction, response to blast and impact, response to fire, structural stability, buckling, collapse behaviour); (iii) numerical modelling and experimental testing (numerical methods, simulation techniques, multi-scale modelling, computational modelling, laboratory testing, field testing, experimental measurements); (iv) design in traditional engineering materials (steel, concrete, steel-concrete composite, aluminium, masonry, timber); (v) innovative concepts, sustainable engineering and special structures (nanostructures, adaptive structures, smart structures, composite structures, glass structures, bio-inspired structures, shells, membranes, space structures, lightweight structures, etc); (vi) the engineering process and life-cycle considerations (conceptualisation, planning, analysis, design, optimization, construction, assembly, manufacture, maintenance, monitoring, assessment, repair, strengthening, retrofitting, decommissioning). Two versions of the papers are available: full papers of length 6 pages are included in an e-book, while short papers of length 2 pages, intended to be concise but self-contained summaries of the full papers, are in this printed book. This work will be of interest to civil, structural, mechanical, marine and aerospace engineers, as well as planners and architects.
Scour And Erosion Ix
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Author : Yeh Keh-Chia
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Scour And Erosion Ix written by Yeh Keh-Chia and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Scour and Erosion IX contains the peer-reviewed scientific contributions presented at 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, 5–8 November 2018), and includes recent accomplishments about scour and erosion in field observation, experimental laboratory work, theoretical development, numerical modeling and disaster management. The book covers fourteen topics: A. Internal erosion B. River, coastal, estuarine and marine scour and erosion C. Rock scour and erosion D. Sediment transport: grain scale and continuum scale E. Scour and erosion around structures F. Soil erosion, restoration mechanisms and conservation G. Hillslope conservation and debris flow H. Geotechnical issues related to scour and erosion I. Field observation and analyses J. Scour and erosion testing and experiment K. Remote sensing, instrumentation and monitoring L. Advanced numerical modelling of scour and erosion M. Natural hazards due to scour and erosion N. Management of scour/erosion and sediment.