TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 587: Countermeasures to Protect Bridge Abutments from Scour examines selection criteria and guidelines for the design and construction of countermeasures to protect bridge abutments and approach embankments from scour damage. The report explores two common forms of bridge abutments--wing-wall (vertical face with angled walls into the bank) and spill-through (angled face).
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2007. Countermeasures to Protect Bridge Abutments from Scour. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/17620.
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Front Matter | i-vii | |
Summary | 1-3 | |
Chapter 1 - Introduction | 4-6 | |
Chapter 2 - Abutment Forms and Scour | 7-18 | |
Chapter 3 - Countermeasure Concepts and Criteria | 19-23 | |
Chapter 4 - Practitioner Survey | 24-37 | |
Chapter 5 - Literature Review | 38-67 | |
Chapter 6 - Lab Results I: Preliminary Experiments | 68-78 | |
Chapter 7 - Lab Results II: Aprons at Wing-Wall Abutments | 79-117 | |
Chapter 8 - Lab Results III: Aprons at Spill-Through Abutments | 118-160 | |
Chapter 9 - Lab Results IV: Flow Modification | 161-190 | |
Chapter 10 - Design Guidelines | 191-207 | |
Chapter 11 - Conclusions | 208-211 | |
References | 212-216 | |
Notation | 217-220 | |
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications | 221-221 |
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