Scour and erosion [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Scour and Erosion, ICSE-5, November 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, California / / sponsored by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Susan E. Burns ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457101703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2011
• ISBN: 0-7844-7615-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1152 p.)
• Collana: Geotechnical special publication ; ; no. 210
• Altri autori (Persone): BurnsSusan E
• Disciplina: 620.1/1292
• Soggetti: Soil stabilization; Soil erosion; Scour (Hydraulic engineering); Soil conservation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Keynote Lectures""; ""Partial Grouted Riprap for Enhanced Scour Resistance""; ""Scour at Offshore Structures""; ""Physics of Rock Scour: The Power of the Bubble""; ""Observational Method for Estimating Future Scour Depth at Existing Bridges""; ""Bridge Scour""; ""An Experimental Study of Scour Process and Sediment Transport around a Bridge Pier with Foundation""; ""Characteristics of Developing Scour Holes around Two Piers Placed in Transverse Arrangement""; ""Local Scour at Bridge Piers: The Role of Reynolds Number on Horseshoe Vortex Dynamics""; ""Trends in Live-Bed Pier Scour at Selected Bridges in South Carolina""""Time-Dependent Scour Depth under Bridge-Submerged Flow""; ""In Situ Measurement of the Scour Potential of Non-Cohesive Sediments (ISEP)""; ""Geotechnical Limit to Scour at Spill-Through Abutments""; ""Maximum Abutment Scour Depth in Cohesive Soils""; ""Erosion of Soils""; ""On the Behaviour of Open Filters under Wave Loading""; ""Two ; Complementary Tests for Characterizing the Soil Erosion""; ""The Effects of Exopolymers on the Erosional Resistance of Cohesive Sediments""; ""Site Factor for Use of Velocity-Based EFA Erosion Rates""""Surface Erosion: Erodibility Characterisation and Physical Parameters Effects""; ""Prediction of Exposure Risk for Buried Pipelines Due to Surface Erosion""; ""Piping Potential of a Fibrous Peat""; ""Comparison of Geosynthetic Rolled Erosion Control Product (RECP) Properties between Laboratories""; ""Comparison of the Rate of Evaporation from Six Rolled Erosion Control Products""; ""International Practices and Guidance: Natural-Fiber Rolled Erosion Control Products""; ""On the Stress Dependent Contact Erosion in Vibro Stone Columns""""Scour and Erosion of Dams and Levees""; ""Suffusion Evaluationâ€?Comparison of Current Approaches""; ""A Life Cycle Approach to Probabilistic Assessment of Levee Erosion""; ""A Practical Approach to Assess Combined Levee Erosion, Seepage, and Slope Stability Failure Modes""; ""Levee Failure Due to Piping: A Full-Scale Experiment""; ""Levee Erosion Prediction Equations Calibrated with Laboratory Testing""; ""Levee Erosion Screening Process""; ""Study of Transient Flow Caused by Rapid Filling and Drawdown in Protection Levees""; ""Simulating Levee Erosion with Physical Modeling Validation""""Testing and Analysis of Erodibility of Hongshihe Landslide Dam""; ""Earth Dam Failure by Erosion: A Case History""; ""Effect of Seepage on River Bank Stability""; ""Experimental Study of Internal Erosion of Fine Grained Soils""; ""Effect of Suffusion on Mechanical Characteristics of Sand""; ""Hydraulic Erosion along the Interface of Different Soil Layers""; ""Identification of Descriptive Parameters of the Soil Pore Structure Using Experiments and CT Data""; ""Slurry Induced Piping Progression of a Sand""; ""Experimental Bench for Study of Internal Erosion in Cohesionless Soils""