Experimental Investigation of Water Loading for an Inclined Bridge due to Flood Overtopping
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Zachary Taylor
(Rowan, Williams, Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI), Canada)
Joshua Galler (Rowan, Williams, Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI), Canada) Derek Kelly (Rowan, Williams, Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI), Canada) Guy Larose (Rowan, Williams, Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI), Canada) Michelle Browning (HNTB Corporation, United States of America) Angela Kingsley (HNTB Corporation, United States of America) Ted Zoli (HNTB Corporation, United States of America) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Beyond Structural Engineering in a Changing World, San José, Cost Rica, 25-27 Seotember 2024 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress San José 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 275-282 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/sanjose.2024.0275 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The potential for bridges being overtopped due to flooding is increasing with climate change. Rather than increasing the elevation of bridges, it is becoming more common to design for the superstructure to withstand the hydrodynamic loads resulting from these overtopping scenarios. The current study employs both wind tunnel testing and water flume testing to provide an understanding of the water loading on the superstructure of a pedestrian bridge. The bridge spanning the potentially flooded channel is at a grade of approximately 5%. Therefore, the portion of the bridge that will be submerged varies with the flood level. Likewise, sectional force coefficients typically reported in the literature need to be adapted and validated to this three-dimensional water loading scenario. |
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| Keywords: |
wind tunnel climate change flooding hydrodynamic loads Overtopping Submersible Bridge Design Sectional Model Water Flume Inclined Bridge
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