Figure (6) shows the effects of slot in reduction of
scouring at different Froude numbers of 0.19, 0.23, 0.26 and 0.31 and at four slot distances from tip X/La = 0.25, 0.42, 0.58 and 0.75 with fixed slot width and the height of the slot (Y = [y.sub.0]).
Scouring around bridge piers is the important safety issue of bridge management since it often leads to bridge slanting and collapsing.
Mechanism of
Scouring and the Effects of Collars and Geobags
'It can take from 10 to 30 years for a shallow ecosystem to recover from a
scouring event; deepwater episodes where communities of deepwater sponges and soft corals are damaged may take hundreds of years to recover,' he says, likening the effects to a bushfire.
In addition, the pressurized accelerated flow can create severe potential for scour because
scouring the channel bed is one of the only ways for a river to dissipate energy and reach equilibrium when it is carrying a given discharge under pressurized flow.
Standard procedures of
scouring cotton materials involve alkali treatment, usually with NaOH.
Once they reach their destination, the team spends three to five days
scouring the area's soil, trees, plants, and rotten logs for ants.
Peissel, a French anthropologist who speaks Tibetan, is an intrepid explorer,
scouring the inhospitable mountainous terrain of the Himalayan plateau on foot and on horseback to reach the fortresses, chapels, monasteries and temples he has meticulously recorded for this book.
Some researchers are
scouring nature to find organisms with antibiotic properties that have been overlooked.
After
scouring the text for background on earthquakes, tsunamis and population dynamics and sharing videos about tsunamis, Cape guided students through an interdisciplinary project.
Where even higher energy waves were accompanied by significant
scouring, most of the two storey structures in tsunami prone areas failed through the undermining of foundation.
According to Blood (2002), the mere task of
scouring the Internet for articles relating to the blog topic every day (or week) makes the blogger an expert.