This document is the fifth edition of HEC-18. It presents the state of knowledge and practice for the design, evaluation and inspection of bridges for scour. Th
The most common cause of bridge failures is from floods scouring bed material from around bridge foundations. Scour is the engineering term for the erosion caus
Full color, richly illustrated book. This manual is part of a set of HECs issued by FHWA to provide guidance for bridge scour and stream stability analyses.
The purpose of this document is to identify and provide design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that have been implemented by
Scour and Erosion includes four keynote lectures from world leading researchers cutting across the themes of scour and erosion, together with 132 peer-reviewed