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Scour Technology : Mechanics and Engineering Practice /
Prepared by one of the world's foremost experts in scour, this text provides the information engineers need to make and justify decisions to protect infrastructure against the effects of scour. Scour Technology steers away from the empiricism that has prevented engineers from developing the nec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw Hill LLC,
[2005]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineeringLibrary.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Scour Management Challenges
- Introduction
- Scour and Infrastructure Safety
- Approach of Book
- How to Use This Book
- Chapter 2. Engineering Judgment
- Introduction
- Defensible Decision Making
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Scour Processes
- Introduction
- Erosive Capacity of Water
- Material Characteristics
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Material and Fluid Properties
- Introduction
- Water
- Physical Gels
- Chemical Gels
- Empirical Characterization of Physical and Chemical Gels
- Vegetated Soils
- Chapter 5. Erosive Capacity of Water
- Introduction
- Summary
- Quantification of Erosive Capacity
- Chapter 6. Scour Thresholds
- Introduction
- Physical Gels
- Chemical Gels
- The Erodibility Index Method
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Scour Extent
- Introduction
- Conceptual Approach
- Scour Extent of Physical Gels
- Scour Extent of Chemical Gels?Brittle Fracture
- Erodibility Index Method
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Temporal Aspects of Scour
- Introduction
- Subcritical Failure (Fatigue)
- Rate of Erosion of Cohesive Material
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Engineering Management of Scour
- Introduction
- Approach
- Scour Protection Options
- Scour Analysis
- Pre-Forming
- Earth Material Enhancement
- Hard Protection Design
- Accommodating Protection
- Flow Modification
- Combined Approaches
- Chapter 10. Case Studies
- Introduction
- San Roque Dam Tunnels
- Ricobayo Dam
- Quantitative Analysis of Scour
- Confederation Bridge
- Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Symbols
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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- T
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