shear stress variation at scour hole of circular pier剪切应力变化的冲刷洞环形码头.pdf

Engineering, 2012, 4, 826-831 /10.4236/eng.2012.411105 Published Online November 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng) Shear Stress Variation at Scour Hole of Circular Pier Joongu Kang, Hongkoo Yeo Water Resource Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Goyang, South Korea Email: jgkang02@kict.re.kr, yeo917@kict.re.kr Received August 25, 2012; revised September 27, 2012; accepted October 7, 2012 ABSTRACT The causes of local scour are generally categorized into flow condition, structure, and riverbed material. A three-di- mensional vortex flow generated with the influence of the structure is the main factors of the flow conditions, and the size of the particles is assumed to be the main factor of the riverbed case. Various studies about pier local scour have been carried out by researchers since the 1960s, and a large number of experimental formulas have been suggested. Dif- ficulties were encountered by these past studies, however, in terms of considering the influence of various riverbed ma- terials and scour changes (floods, etc.) on time, with the condition of maximum scour depth. In the case of Korea, espe- cially, scour influenced by various riverbed materials and the frequency of floods have been determined to be very im- portant factors. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of this study on pier scour is to suggest the scour examination method that could consider various riverbed materials and the frequency of floods. In this study, the periodic changes in local scour based on the differences in the diameters of four types of bed materials, and on the hydraulic condition of the ini- tial scour, were determined and compared with those in former studies. Using the results of the comparison, this study aims to determine the changes in the shear-stress around piers f