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J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory OverviewThe Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory provides a means of testing the hydraulic performance of highway drainage structures and stream crossings, including the hydraulics of bridges, culverts, and storm sewers. The purpose of the laboratory is to solve hydraulic and stream stability problems attendant to highways and to support highway engineers with design guidance and tools. The TFHRC J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory is situated in the Turner building of the TFHRC complex in McLean, Virginia.
The J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory consists of both physical and numerical modeling components used in concert with each other. The main assets of the laboratory include a main flume, mini-flumes, a culvert hydraulics experimental setup, a force balance, along with equipment and methods to make experimental measurements and collect experimental data.
Understanding hydraulics and hydrology as they apply to highway structures is a necessity for the proper design of bridges and other drainage structures especially during extreme events such as major floods and washouts. Use this site to learn about research at the TFHRC Hydraulics Laboratory, download available research results, and link to related information sources elsewhere on the World Wide Web. Find out more about the laboratory's facilities using these links:
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