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Effects of Inlet Geometry on Hydraulic Performance of Box Culverts

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9781508858591 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 15, 2015, cover price $25.99

Enhanced Abutment Scour Studies for Compound Channels

Product Description: Experimental results and analyses are given in this report on bridge abutment scour in compound channels. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory flume with a cross section consisting of a wide floodplain adjacent to a main channel...read more

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9781508858782 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 14, 2015, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Experimental results and analyses are given in this report on bridge abutment scour in compound channels.

Assessing Stream Channel Stability at Bridges in Physiographic Regions

Product Description: The goal of bridge inspections is to assess the safety of bridges on a regular basis so that any deficiencies will be identified and corrected. Given the large number of bridges over water in any State, bridge inspectors must inspect the superstructure, substructure, and waterway of each bridge in a short amount of time...read more

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9781508858379 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 14, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The goal of bridge inspections is to assess the safety of bridges on a regular basis so that any deficiencies will be identified and corrected.

Hydrodynamic Forces on Inundated Bridge Decks

Product Description: The hydrodynamic forces experienced by an inundated bridge deck have great importance in the design of bridges. Specifically, the drag force, lift force, and the moment acting on the bridge deck under various levels of inundation and a range of flow conditions influence the design and construction of the bridge...read more

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9781508858331 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 14, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The hydrodynamic forces experienced by an inundated bridge deck have great importance in the design of bridges.

Pier Scour in Clear-water Conditions With Non-uniform Bed Materials

Product Description: Hydraulics and scour hazards cause over half of the bridge failures in the United States and have been identified by State bridge authorities as one of the top issues in bridge design and maintenance. Current pier scour design in the United States is mainly based on the Colorado State University (CSU) equation, which is described in Hydraulic Engineering Circular No...read more

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9781508858225 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 14, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Hydraulics and scour hazards cause over half of the bridge failures in the United States and have been identified by State bridge authorities as one of the top issues in bridge design and maintenance.

Durability Analysis of Aluminized Type 2 Corrugated Metal Pipe

Product Description: Durability of Culverts and Special Coatings is intended to provide up-to-date storm drain and culvert material selection methods and techniques to assist the highway engineer in designing culverts. While the program was to consider a variety of materials, the predominant focus was on Aluminized Type 2 corrugated steel pipe (CSP) and its performance versus galvanized CSP...read more

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9781508836681 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 13, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Durability of Culverts and Special Coatings is intended to provide up-to-date storm drain and culvert material selection methods and techniques to assist the highway engineer in designing culverts.

Field Observations and Evaluations of Streambed Scour at Bridges

Product Description: Bridge piers and highway embankments leading to a bridge often obstruct the flow of floodwaters, causing an increase in velocity and the development of vortices. The increased velocity and vortices often cause scour near the bridge foundations...read more

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9781508836582 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Bridge piers and highway embankments leading to a bridge often obstruct the flow of floodwaters, causing an increase in velocity and the development of vortices.

Bottomless Culvert Scour Study: Phase I Laboratory Report

Product Description: Bottomless (or three-sided) culverts use the natural channel bed and are environmentally attractive alternatives to traditional closed culverts. Moreover, they are considered by many highway agencies to be economical alternatives for replacing short bridges...read more

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9781508836513 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Bottomless (or three-sided) culverts use the natural channel bed and are environmentally attractive alternatives to traditional closed culverts.

Bottomless Culvert Scour Study: Phase II Laboratory Report

Product Description: Bottomless culverts are three-sided structures that use the natural channel for the bottom. These structures could be used to convey flows from one side of a highway to the other. As such, they are an environmentally attractive alternative to box, pipe, and pipe arch culvert designs...read more

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9781508836407 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Bottomless culverts are three-sided structures that use the natural channel for the bottom.

Bridge Scour in Nonuniform Sediment Mixtures and in Cohesive Materials

Product Description: This report presents the summary and synthesis of the various components of the experimental study entitled âEffects of Gradation and Cohesion on Bridge Scourâ conducted at Colorado State University between the dates 1991 through 1996...read more

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9781508836728 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: This report presents the summary and synthesis of the various components of the experimental study entitled âEffects of Gradation and Cohesion on Bridge Scourâ conducted at Colorado State University between the dates 1991 through 1996.

Junction Loss Experiments

Product Description: Storm drains generally collect storm runoff from streets, parking lots, and other structures and convey this water to a desired outfall. Access holes (or manholes), which allow staff to inspect, maintain, or repair a segment of the drainage, are usually spaced about 92 to 183 meters (m) (300 to 600 feet (ft)) apart along a given pipe and at every junction between multiple pipes...read more

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9781508836353 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Storm drains generally collect storm runoff from streets, parking lots, and other structures and convey this water to a desired outfall.

Bridge Pressure Flow Scour for Clear Water Conditions

Product Description: Bridges are a vital component of the transportation network. Evaluating their stability and structural response after a flood event is critical to highway safety. Bridge studies are usually designed with an assumption of an open channel flow condition, but the flow regime can switch to pressure flow when the downstream edge of a bridge deck is partially or totally submerged during a large flood...read more

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9781508811039 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Bridges are a vital component of the transportation network.

Highway Stormwater Pump Station Design

Product Description: This publication provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the design of stormwater pump station systems associated with transportation facilities. Guidance is provided for the planning and design of pump stations which collect, convey, and discharge stormwater flowing within and along the right-of-way of transportation systems...read more

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9781508810773 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: This publication provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the design of stormwater pump station systems associated with transportation facilities.

Submerged Flow Bridge Scour Under Clear Water Conditions

Product Description: Pressure flow (also known as vertical contraction) scour occurs when a bridge deck is insufficiently high such that the bridge superstructure becomes a barrier to the flow, causing the flow to vertically contract as it passes under the deck...read more

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9781508810827 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Pressure flow (also known as vertical contraction) scour occurs when a bridge deck is insufficiently high such that the bridge superstructure becomes a barrier to the flow, causing the flow to vertically contract as it passes under the deck.

Fish Passage in Large Culverts With Low Flows

Product Description: Historically, culverts have been designed for hydraulic efficiency without consideration of fish passage or, more generally, aquatic organism passage. Over time, it has become apparent that culverts frequently become impediments to healthy aquatic ecosystems because they can prevent the movement of fish and other aquatic organisms upstream and downstream through the culvert...read more

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9781508810889 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Historically, culverts have been designed for hydraulic efficiency without consideration of fish passage or, more generally, aquatic organism passage.

Culvert Design for Aquatic Organism Passage

Product Description: This manual presents a stream simulation design procedure, methods and best practices for designing culverts to facilitate aquatic organism passage (AOP). Although this manual focuses on culverts, the design team should recognize that an appropriate structure for any given crossing may be a bridge...read more

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9781508810988 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: This manual presents a stream simulation design procedure, methods and best practices for designing culverts to facilitate aquatic organism passage (AOP).

Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures: Experience, Selection and Design Guidance

Product Description: This publication identifies and provides design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that have been implemented by various State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the United States. Countermeasure experience, selection, and design guidance are consolidated from other FHWA publications in this document to support a comprehensive analysis of scour and stream instability problems and provide a range of solutions to those problems...read more

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9781508810698 | 3 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: This publication identifies and provides design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that have been implemented by various State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the United States.

9781508810582 | 3 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This publication identifies and provides design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that have been implemented by various State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the United States.

Stream Stability at Highway Structures

Product Description: Approximately 500,000 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) are built over streams. A large proportion of these bridges span alluvial streams that are continually adjusting their beds and banks. Many, especially those on more active streams, will experience problems with aggradation, degradation, bank erosion, and lateral channel shift during their useful life...read more

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9781508680826 | 4th edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Approximately 500,000 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) are built over streams.

Evaluating Scour at Bridges

Product Description: The most common cause of bridge failures is from floods scouring bed material from around bridge foundations. Scour is the engineering term for the erosion caused by water of the soil surrounding a bridge foundation (piers and abutments)...read more

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9781508680758 | 5th edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: The most common cause of bridge failures is from floods scouring bed material from around bridge foundations.

Design of Roadside Channels With Flexible Linings

Product Description: Flexible linings provide a means of stabilizing roadside channels. Flexible linings are able to conform to changes in channel shape while maintaining overall lining integrity. Long-term flexible linings such as riprap, gravel, or vegetation (reinforced with synthetic mats or unreinforced) are suitable for a range of hydraulic conditions...read more

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9781508680710 | 3 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Flexible linings provide a means of stabilizing roadside channels.

Hydraulic Design of Energy Dissipators for Culverts and Channels

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9781508680642 | 3 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015), cover price $26.99

Introduction To Highway Hydraulics

Product Description: Highway hydraulic structures perform the vital function of conveying, diverting, or removing surface water from the highway right-of-way. They should be designed to be commensurate with risk, construction cost, importance of the road, economy of maintenance, and legal requirements...read more

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9781508666066 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Highway hydraulic structures perform the vital function of conveying, diverting, or removing surface water from the highway right-of-way.

9781508666172 | 4th edition (Createspace Independent Pub, February 28, 2015), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Highway hydraulic structures perform the vital function of conveying, diverting, or removing surface water from the highway right-of-way.

9781410219589 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, January 30, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: ntroduction to Highway Hydraulics provides an introduction to highway hydraulics.

River Engineering for Highway Encroachments: Highways in the River Environment

Product Description: The Federal Highway Administration document "Highways in the River Environment - Hydraulic and Environmental Design Considerations" was first published in 1975, was revised in 1990, and is now issued as Hydraulic Design Series 6, "River Engineering for Highway Encroachments...read more

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9781508666509 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The Federal Highway Administration document "Highways in the River Environment - Hydraulic and Environmental Design Considerations" was first published in 1975, was revised in 1990, and is now issued as Hydraulic Design Series 6, "River Engineering for Highway Encroachments.

Debris Control Structures: Evaluation and Countermeasures

Product Description: Debris accumulation at culvert and bridge structures openings is a widespread problem. The accumulation of debris at inlets of highway culverts and bridge structures is a frequent cause of unsatisfactory performance and malfunction...read more

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9781508680574 | 3 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 1, 2015), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Debris accumulation at culvert and bridge structures openings is a widespread problem.

Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts

Product Description: Hydraulic Design Series Number 5 (HDS 5) originally merged culvert design information contained in Hydraulic Engineering Circulars (HEC) 5, 10, and 13 with other related hydrologic, storage routing and special culvert design information...read more

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9781508666660 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 28, 2015, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Hydraulic Design Series Number 5 (HDS 5) originally merged culvert design information contained in Hydraulic Engineering Circulars (HEC) 5, 10, and 13 with other related hydrologic, storage routing and special culvert design information.

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