Relationships are proposed for the prediction of scour at piers and abutments for the case in which sediment is supplied to the scour hole. The relationships were obtained from a combination of an approximate analysis and laboratory experiments, and depend on knowledge of the flow conditions at the bridge site.
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Emmett M. Laursen (1962) studied this question.
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