Hydraulics & Hydrology Research
Overview:
The hydraulics and hydrology research program at TFHRC has four coordinated parts.
The first part is contracted research conducted by universities, private research firms, and other
government agencies. The FHWA contract research program on bridge scour was a high-priority research area during the 1990s.
The second part is research conducted as part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). We provide liaison for NCHRP projects related to hydraulics and hydrology. There are approximately eight such NCHRP projects that are currently active.
The third part is the technical support and advice that we provide in support of the major State Planning and Research (SPR) studies.
Finally, our most visible part is the work done in the TFHRC
Hydraulics Laboratory and by the lab staff. We conduct fundamental
research, provide technical support of engineering circulars that
are published by our FHWA partners, and provide technical engineering
service to FHWA Division Offices and State departments of transportation
(DOTs). The laboratory is staffed by contractors funded mostly by
an FHWA administrative contract, but some of the work of the lab is
on behalf of and paid by other government offices and State DOTs.
We maintain a research summary which gives an up-to-date status of the overall hydraulics and hydrology research program and lists the publications that have been developed over the years.
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