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dc.rights.licenseAll rights reserveden_US
dc.contributor.advisorVillalta Calderón, Christian A.
dc.contributor.authorBerríos Soto, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-25T00:36:56Z
dc.date.available2020-06-25T00:36:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationBerríos Soto, C. (2018). Analysis of estimated scour vs inspected scour on a bridge after Hurricane Maria, and their impact on the Puerto Rico Bridge Program [Unpublished manuscript]. Graduate School, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12475/200
dc.descriptionDesign Project Article for the Graduate Programs at Polytechnic University of Puerto Ricoen_US
dc.description.abstractBridge scour is considered the main reason for bridge failures due to the holes that can form and compromise the structure stability. Federal regulations require all proposed bridges to be designed for scour resistance and all existing bridges to be evaluated for scour vulnerability. Scour evaluations are typically based on the 100-year recurrence flood event. Bridges determined to be unstable due to observed scour or assessed high potential for scour are deemed scour critical. Various equations to evaluate scour are available, however many of them are considered conservative and leading to overestimation of the scour depths. The pass of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico triggered catastrophic flooding in the magnitude of a 100-year recurrence flood and higher, hence replicating the conditions for which bridges are evaluated. To analyze evaluated against observed scour, a bridge within Maria’s track was inspected and compared as a case study to its evaluation results. The outcome showed that the equations may have overestimated the scour depths, given no scour was found at the bridge; also implying that this overestimation could have an impact on the Puerto Rico Bridge Program, which currently has 495 scour critical bridges, all requiring flood monitoring and, consequently, greater resources. Key Terms – Bridge Scour, Flood Monitoring, Hurricane Maria, Scour Critical Bridges.en_US
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dc.publisherPolytechnic University of Puerto Ricoen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCivil Engineering
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSpring-2018
dc.relation.haspartSan Juan Campusen_US
dc.subject.lcshScour at bridgesen_US
dc.subject.lcshBridges--Flood damageen_US
dc.subject.lcshPolytechnic University of Puerto Rico--Graduate students--Research
dc.subject.lcshPolytechnic University of Puerto Rico--Graduate students--Posters
dc.titleAnalysis of Estimated Scour vs Inspected Scour on a Bridge after Hurricane Maria, and their Impact on the Puerto Rico Bridge Programen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.holderPolytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Graduate Schoolen_US


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