National Bridge Scour Project

Please contact Charles Berenbrock with questions.

Summary of USGS Highway Programs (2004-Present)

FHWA-RD-99-085 Portable Instrumentation for Real-Time Measurement of Scour at Bridges (pdf = 2.4M)

OSW Memos

SW 92.03 Guidelines for the Transmittal of Bridge-Scour Information to Cooperators

SW 93.01 Summary of Documentation that Describes Instrumentation

SW 93.04 Correction to Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum No. 93.01

SW 96.10 Distribution of "Channel Scour at Bridges in the United States", by Mark N. Landers and David S. Mueller (Federal Highway Administration Publication FHWA RD 95 184), and of "Bridge-Scour Data Management System User's Manual," by Mark N. Landers, David S. Mueller, and Gary R. Martin (U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-754)

SW 97.04 Distribution of Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4310, Method for Rapid Estimation of Scour at Highway Bridges Based on Limited Site Data, by Stephen R. Holnbeck and Charles Parrett

Memorandum--Subject: Summary of the Bridge Scour Assessment Work Group

Memorandum--Subject: Reconnaissance Type Bridge-Scour Projects

Training

USGS Training Courses

SW1004TC Basic Hydraulics Principles

SW2016TC Alluvial Channel Hydraulics and Sediment Transport

SW2009TC Surface Water Hydraulics Analyses

SW1091TC Sediment Data-Collection Techniques

Other Training Courses

Training Classes available with the Federal Highway Administration: Hydraulics

Software

BSDMS - Bridge Scour Data Management System

FESWMS-2DH - Finite-Element Surface-Water Modeling System for 2-D Flow in the Horizontal Plain

WSPRO - A computer model for Water-Surface PROfile computations

Other sources of bridge scour related software

FHWA - Federal Highway Administration Hydraulic Engineering Software

McTrans - University of Florida Center for Microcomputers in Transportation

GKY & Associates, Inc.

References

Recent USGS Authored Publications on Bridge Scour

Crumrine, M.D., Lee, K.K., and Kittleson, R.L., 1996, Bridge-scour instrumentation and data for nine sites in Oregon, 1991-1994: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-366, 19 p.

Diehl, Timothy H., Potential Drift Accumulation at Bridges: FHWA-RD-97-028

Doheny, E.J., Helinsky, B.M., and McGregor, R.A., 1996, A technique for preliminary appraisal of potential and observed scour as applied to state-maintained highway bridges in Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-135, 75 p.

Hayes, D.C., 1996, Scour at bridge sites in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4089, 35 p.

Hilmes, M.M., and Vaill, J.E., 1997, Estimates of bridge scour at two sites on the Virgin River, Southeastern Nevada, using a sediment transport model and historical geomorphic data: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4073, 72 p.

Hopkins, M.S., and Robinson, B.A., 1997, Data base for assessment of streambed scour and channel instability at selected bridges in Indiana, 1991-1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-419, 17 p.

Jackson, K.S., 1996, Evaluation of Bridge-Scour Data at Selected Sites on Ohio: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4182, 96 p.

Landers, M.N., and Mueller, D.S., 1996, Channel scour at bridges in the United States: Federal Highway Administration Report FHWA-RD-95-184.

Landers, M.N., and Mueller, D.S., and Martin, G.R., 1996, Bridge-scour data management system users manual: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-754.

Mueller, D.S., 1996, Scour at bridges detailed data collection during floods, Proceeding of the Sixth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., p. IV-41 IV-48.

Mueller, D.S. and Jones, J.S., 1997, Evaluation of field and laboratory research on scour at bridge piers in the United States in Managing Water: Coping with Scarcity and Abundance Proceedings of Theme A, The 27^th Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Research, American Society of Civil Engineers, August, p. 135-140.

Mueller, D.S., and Landers, M.N., 1996, Laboratory evaluation of a conductivity probe for scour monitoring, Proceeding of the North American Water and Environment Congress, ASCE

Voelker, D.C., 1997, Application of the BRIdge Stream Tube Model for Alluvial River Simulations (BRI-STARS) at Bridge 101-17-5096A, State Road 101 over the St. Joseph River at Saint Joe, Indiana: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4137, 45 p.

More USGS Authored Publications on Bridge Scour and Related Topics

FHWA Hydraulic Engineering Publications Reference List

Other References Related to Bridge Scour

Summary of the Bridge Scour Assessment Work Group (May 1993)

Other Links

FHWA Bridge Division, Hydraulics Group

ASCE Task Committee on Bridge Management for Scour Safety

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)