National Bridge Scour Database
USGS 2007 Highway Programs (pdf = 260K)
USGS 2006 Highway Programs (pdf = 175K)
USGS 2005 Highway Programs (pdf = 318K)
FHWA-RD-99-085 Portable
Instrumentation for Real-Time Measurement of Scour at Bridges
(pdf =
2.4M)
USGS Activities
- OSW Memos
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SW 92.03 Guidelines for the Transmittal of Bridge-Scour
Information to Cooperators
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SW 93.01 Summary of Documentation that Describes
Instrumentation
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SW 93.04 Correction to Office of Surface Water
Technical Memorandum No. 93.01
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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)
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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 27th
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)
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