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Mechanism of scour around two piers
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Rahul Malik Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Hydraulics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India

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Baldev Setia Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Hydraulics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India

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Pages:
99–104
Online Publication Date:
17 Oct 2023
Publication Date:
22 Mar 2024
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/606.2023.00864
Keywords:
scour depth; side by side arrangement; fluid dynamics; mechanism
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Abstract

Scour around the bridge piers is the main cause of bridge failure below any bridge pier placed within the waterways. It is more than hundred years back a number of researchers described the vortex shedding phenomenon and the resulting Aeolian tones from a circular cylinder. Since then there have been a large number of investigations dealing with various aspects of this phenomenon. In many practical works and situations, flow takes place around more than one obstruction and objects in close proximity. Invariably in all these cases, interference effects occur and the forces on the obstructions are much influenced by these effects. These effects play a key role in the structures like flow-induced vibration of TV and transmission towers, and in many other practical situations. In this research paper the changes in the flow field that occur due to the interference effects are shown, analysed and the results as given in literature are compared with the present experimental work. The features have been brought out in this paper mainly make use of stand and geometry of circular cylinders in close proximity and the flow part of geometry in side by side arrangement.

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