Reduction of Local Scour Around A Bridge Pier Using Triple Rectangular Plates
Alireza Pourzaker Arabani1 * and Human Hajikandi1
1
Department of Civil Engineering,
Islamic Azad University,
Central Tehran Branch,
Tehran,
Iran
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.08
The performance of vertical triple plates as a new countermeasure in control of local scour around a cylindrical model pier is studied. Two ones of the plates are attached to the side wall one of the pier at one pier diameter distance, extending toward upstream distance and the third one is located in the middle, attached to the pier nose. All the three plates are parallel to flow direction. Experiments are conducted for five different depths of flow and two different lengths of the lateral plates, namely 8 and 14 cm. all the runs are performed under the clear water flow over uniform sediment. The results showed a maximum efficiency of 76% in scour reduction for 8 cm long side plates and 85% for 14 cm long ones.it is also found that the proposed setup act simultaneously as both the bed armoring and flow altering countermeasure.
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Arabani A. P, Hajikandi H. Reduction of Local Scour Around A Bridge Pier Using Triple Rectangular Plates. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.08
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Arabani A. P, Hajikandi H. Reduction of Local Scour Around A Bridge Pier Using Triple Rectangular Plates. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=10553
