Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
College/Unit
Statler College of Engineering and Mining Resources
Department/Program/Center
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Abstract
Little efforts have been made to the value of laboratory model study in closing the gap between results from idealized laboratory experiments and those from field data. Thus, at first, three bridge sites were selected and equipped with fathometers to find the bed elevation change in the vicinity of bridge pier over time. After and during the flooding, the stream flow variables and their bathymetry were measured using current viable technologies at the field. Then, to develop and suggest a laboratory modeling techniques, full three-dimensional physical models including measured river bathymetry and bridge geometry were designed and fabricated in a laboratory based on the scale ratio except for the sediment size, and the laboratory results were compared with the field measurements. Size of uniform sediment was carefully selected and used in the laboratory to explore the scale effect caused by sediment size scaling. The comparisons between laboratory results and field measurements show that the physical models successfully reproduced the flow characteristics and the scour depth around bridge foundations. With respect to the location of the maximum scour depth, they are not consistent with the results as in the previous research. Instead of occurring at the nose of each pier, the maximum scour depths are located further downstream of each pier column in several experimental runs because of the combination of complex pier bent geometry and river bathymetry, and the resulting unique flow motions around the pier bent.
Digital Commons Citation
Lee, Seung Oh and Hong, Seung Ho, "Reproducing Field Measurements Using Scaled-Down Hydraulic Model Studies in a Laboratory" (2018). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1977.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1977
Source Citation
Lee, S. O., & Hong, S. H. (2018). Reproducing Field Measurements Using Scaled-Down Hydraulic Model Studies in a Laboratory. Advances in Civil Engineering, 2018, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9091506
Comments
Copyright © 2018 Seung Oh Lee and Seung Ho Hong. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.