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Destruction of bridges caused by scour and other natural phenomenon brings about financial and life losses. Hence, researchers have been studied extensively the scour mechanism and methods of scour countermeasure. Usually scour at bridge occurs both around piers and abutments. Melville (1992)'s study showed that 70 percent of the failure of bridges in New Zealand was due to the abutment scour. Studies conducted on the failure of 383 bridges in the United States showed that in 25% of them the pier scour, and in 72% of them the damage was due to abutment scour (Kayatrak, 2005). The main cause of the abutment scour is due to complex flow vortices which developed around the abutment. Therefore, during the past decades many measures have been developed to protect the bed material against erosion. These techniques can be categorized in two types of covering methods and flow altering techniques. Design guidelines for some of these mitigation techniques can be found in Melville and Coleman (2000). For existing bridges the common practice is to use armoring materials around bridge abutment. Riprap, gabions, rectangular concrete blocks and tetrahedron frames concrete elements are the most effective material for covering and stabilizing the bed around the bridge abutments. In rivers with high flood discharge, the covering material are subject to high flow velocities and therefore large size of rocks have to be used. When the site construction is far away from mountain area or large sizes of the rocks are not available or too costly to transport, other material should be applied. In the present study, a new concrete element-six –legs concrete (SLC)- beside using of smaller size of rocks have been studied to find out the best combination for protecting bridge abutments against scour.

Protection of water pipelines - wastewater or fuel materials - on the bed of erosion of the sea and rivers against such factors as bending, slipping and even fracture are important and costly issues in ocean engineering. In order to protect the potential destruction and fracture of these pipelines due to hydrodynamic forces of flow-waves or human activities. It is necessary to be covered with a concrete-coat or buried at an appropriate depth of bed with trenching.Objective observations showed that the pipelines that are located on the erosion bed of the sea and the rivers have the potential to produce a natural burial (self-burial pipe) in a bed of sediment, due to localized scouring.But in natural conditions, the burial process takes place with little speed. Therefore, by installing the spoiler on the pipelines, it is attempting to increase the Perpendicular cross-section of the flow (making changes in the pattern of flow around the pipeline) and, finally, the occurrence of erosion and self-burial inlower environmental velocities, but more intense. Therefore, it is necessary to first investigate the factors affecting for erosion sediment bed and estimate the dimensions of scour hole under pipelines, to study the accelerating factors and its effects on ocean engineering. Themost of researchers considered the local scouring around the pipelines relatede to be rapid, the depth of the flow, the pipe diameter and the particle size of the bed. Moncada-M and Aguirre-Pe (1999) describe that, the scour depth below the pipeline as a function of the flow loss number and the dimensionless distance between the pipe and the intact bed. Cheng and Chew (2003) and Zhao and Wang (2009), by simulating the flow area around the pipeline with the mounted fin on it, found that the lifting force and shear stress in the bed and the scour depth increased with the fin. (2012), by using laboratory results, showed that the flow loss number and the height of the fin had a significant effect on the depth of scouring under the horizontal pipelines. Shan et al. (2015) with numerical evaluation of self-burial of tube with the fin mounted on it, and in displacement mode, with Fluent software, found that increasing the flow loss number in near of the bed would help to increase the burial speed of the tube. recently studies showed that the mounting of the fins on the pipeline lead to increasing the amount of erosion around the tube. The application of mounted Piggyback line with cross sectional and different angles on the main pipelines can be a major difference with previous research.

Water passage from steep slopes in river engineering issues and the design of water transfer structures is inevitable. Because of the steep slope of the surface, the surface velocity and surface erosion rates are high. Energy control in high-speed flows is one of the challenges of designing hydraulic structures. These flows, for example, occur in places such as dam overhead structures, drainage systems of urban areas and Mountain Rivers with a steep slope. One of the ways to reduce dimensions or eliminate energy depreciating structures is to use methods to reduce the kinetic energy of flow over the weir, including using of stairs or blocks on the overflow. The use of large-sized stairs or blocks will cause the passing jets of flow to be separated and as a result turbulent, which can effectively deplete the kinetic energy of the current. The problem with using a staircase or block is a huge cost of built and a high risk of cavitation. Another method of energy depreciation is to apply roughness at the overflow bed, which may be an efficient way to reduce energy. Roughness can dramatically reduce the flow turbulence, and thus reduces the risk of cavitation. Also, roughness can reduce the flow power over the overflow and reduce the depth of the lower erosion pit by removing or reducing the dimensions of the relaxation basin. Most studies in this field have investigated the effect of these roughs on the amount of energy depletion, which in addition to energy depletion is also important for lowering the erosion of the structure. However, for the economic design of hydraulic structures, designers need to have full knowledge of the particle mechanics and the dimensions of the scour hole, so that they can consider the requirements for the stability of the structure, which has so far been investigated insufficiently. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of roughness density on sloped bed surface on its downstream scour depth.

draining the flood of enormous dams and transmitting the procedure to the downstream is one of the important issues regarding hydraulic structures. Plunge pools are the main structures to dissipate the high rate of energy. The amount of energy at an outlet jet depends on various parameters such as the dropping height, the thickness of the jet, and other environmental conditions. Local erosion in plunge pools with alluvial beds is a complex phenomenon and determining the geometric features of the scour hole is really difficult. The outlet flow mixes with the turbulence factor and hits the bed of the plunge pools with a semi-perpendicular condition. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the scour which was caused by inlet air along the middle water jet on the bottom of the plunge pools. Xu et al. (2004) tested the aeration effects on the scouring caused by the falling jet and obtained a small relationship between the percentage of air jet density and the relative scour depth. The results informed that aeration affects the shape of the scour hole and essentially reduces the scour depth. Manso et al. (2004) investigated the interaction of the geometric shape of the submerged pond with rocky bedding on the rate of diffusion of the falling jet. They tested various diameters of jets,5.5, 11 and 16.5 times the diameter of falling jet, on the smooth and rough beds to investigate the dynamic pressures with frequencies between 1 to 2 KHZ. Their findings showed that the geometric shape of the pond has a direct impact on the jet diffusion rate. Duarte et al. (2015) studied the effects of air inlet to jet on the dynamical pressure on the floor of the submerged pond. They increased the jet's velocity to 22 m/s. The final results showed that the air inlet to the jet led to a decline in the total pressure on the floor of the pond.

Providing safe conditions for water pipelines or other fluids on erodible beds is an important issue in the field of hydraulic engineering. Studies show that the installation of a plate called Spoiler on top of the pipeline increases the amount of the erosion around the pipe and its self burial stimulation. Most studies about spoiler have been done on a fixed pipe, but in reality, when the scouring hole underneath the pipe is deep enough, the pipe begins to lower as a result of the weight, at when the pipe reaches the bottom of the scour hole, the erosion process stops and then the pipe is covered with sand and buried. The self burial phenomenon has not been studied with the use of a spoiler in the case of actual displacement of the pipe, and due to the fact that the studied pipes have been fixed, the transitional and sedimentary phases have not been observed. Considering the role of pipe displacement in changing the scouring profile, the study of the spatial phenomenon of the pipe during displacement and observing the actual effect of the spoiler on the self burial performance and its effective parameters are necessary. In this study, this phenomenon has been studied experimentally.

The most common way to dissipate the water kinetic energy at the downstream of weirs , gates at chutes is to use the hydraulic jump. Hydraulic jump is a phenomenon that alters the flow regime of the state of supercritical to the subcritical with dissipating much of the flow kinetic energy and to prevent possible downstream scour of the structure. Development of the downstream scour hole of the hydraulic jump stilling basins can cause failure of the structure itself , which has been the interest of the researchers in the past. The extension of new roughened bed basin is essential to pursue and complete what previous researchers concluded for these basins.Safe and an economical design of hydraulic structures, an estimation of the maximum scour depth, and to minimization the scour dimensions is the interest of the researchers. Therefore, in this study the effect of placing the six-legged concrete elements under different lengths was investigated investigated. Covering the river bed downstream of the spillways and gates with these roughened and permeable elements can decrease the stilling basin length and expected less scour depth. These elements are tight together and placed on the bed. The covered length of the bed is equal to the length of jump on these elements. However, there is possibility in which few rows of the downstream elements are escaped because of the edge failure and therefore the roughened bed length is shortened. The main purpose of this study was to see how much exactly would be the magnitude of downstream scour depth if the covered length is decreased. .

Pieve scour is one of the most important cause of bridge failure. Covering methods such as using riprap is among techniques which are widely applied for the existing bridges. For those places where the stones of adequate size are not available, use of six-legged elements which is the subject of this, study is a good choice. In this study the effect of placement of a single row six- legged around a rectangular bridge with 100% density in three different cases of above, mid and below the bed under five different Froude numbers of 0.24, 0.22, 0.19, 0.17 and 0.16 have been experimentally investigated. Comparison of the bed topography withmean measure of bed deposit of 0.7 mmof tests with six- legged and tests without elements showed that generally the elements can reduce the scour depth significantly. The elements placed on the mid of bed have shown better performance with maximum reduction of about 57%. The general recommendation is to use these elements with geo-syntactic filter or placed in more rows.

One of the most effective techniques for removing the deposited sediments from reservoirs is pressure flushing which has only much local effects. It is often applied as a clearing process to remove sediment saround the entrance of intakes.In order to make rational design of bottom outlets and other sediment flushing structures, the understanding of the characteristics of a scour funnel in under pressure flushing is significant. The physical model was constructed in the Hydraulic Laboratory at the Water Sciences Engineerin Faculty of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and by performing various experiments on the effect of bottom outlet shape on the volume and dimensions of flushing cone was experimentally investigated. For this purposes, the experiments on 4 bottom outlets with a circular, semicircular, rectangular and square cross-sectional area equal to 18 cm2, five water levels of 30, 45, 55, 65, 78 cm, resulting in five different discharges on the bottom outlet, was performed. The results of this survey revealed that the shape of the lower opening is an important parameter in hydraulic flushing, changing of which results in change of scouring diameter. Results also showed that for a specific water level in the reservoir and for a specific time the scouring dimension for square valves and semicircle valves are more than one of rectangular valves. The scouring dimensions of rectangular valves are more than one of circular valves. The difference is more perceptible in lower water heights (i. e. lower discharge). The length of scouring and the volume of flushing cone increases with incrsing head and is the least for circular valves.

Two major factors causing of scour around bridge piers are the down flow occurred in upstream part of the piers and separation of streamlines from piers called horseshoe vortex. Installation of a collar on a pier will reduce the power of the down flow and horseshoe vortex. In this study, the effects of placement of collar and netted collars on scour depth of cubic pier are investigated. The experimental flume was rectangular with the length of 7.3 meters, width of 0.56 m and a depth of 0.6 m. For this propose four collars included, one simple and three netted (with opening parts equal to 15percent, 30percent and 40percent), are tested under clear water condition. The experiments were performed in laboratory flume on Hydraulics Laboratory of Shahid Chamran University. The collars were installed in three levels equal to 0.5B, 0.25B and on the bed. The results were compared with the pier without the collar, and showed that the netted collar reduce the maximum scour depth between 34percent to 97percent in comparison with the case of no collar used. Also in low Froude Numbers, the netted collars showed better protection in comparison with the simple one.

The local scour around bridge pier and abutment in recent years has been widely studied by different authors. Scant information exists as to how bridge pier proximity to abutment affects scour depth at an abutment and at a pier. Due to the fact that many bridges have a pier located close to an abutment, therefore, it is necessary to be study. This paper presents the effect of abutment length and pier shape on scour depth of them, by using wing-wall abutments with lengths 25, 37.5 and 50cm and circular, round edge and sharp edge piers in two distance, 17.5 and 35cm from the bank wall at the flood plain. The results of experimental study showed that the proximity pier to abutment, increases scour depth of them and the minimum scour depth related to the circular pier and maximum scour depth related to the sharp edge pier. For example, the sharp edge pier in distance 17.5cm from the bank wall at the flood plain, for abutment with length 50cm, increases scour depth of abutment and pier 50% and 61% respectively, compared with scour depth of them in isolation.

Spur dike is a hydraulic structure which has an essential role in reducing the shear force on river banks. The interaction between the structure and flow makes vertical and horizontal vortices, which are the main reason for producing a local scour hole around spur dike and finally damaging it. The behavior of the flow around a spur dike and the intensity of degradation and aggradation depend on different factors such as the type of the spur dike, its position, its angle with the bank, and some other parameters. One of the most important factors is the permeability of the spur dike. This experimental study focuses on the effect of spur dike’s angle and its permeability on scour hole dimensions in non-submerged conditions. According to the results, when permeability increased up to 50%, scouring decreased significantly. For Fr=0.24, and in the vertical position of spur dike (90 degrees) with 50% permeability, relative depth, length, and width of the scour hole decreased 67%, 75.3% and 45.5%, respectively in comparison with impermeable spur dike. Also for the angle of 120 degrees, relative depth, length and width of the scour hole declined 64.1%, 72.1% and 35.4%, respectively. Similar results were obtained for the angle of 60 degrees with the reduction of relative depth, length and width of the scour hole being measured 60.2%, 68.7% and 38.8%, respectively. In addition, for 50% permeability, the highest level of scouring was for the angle of 60 degrees, whose average relative depth, length, and width were 0.19, 0.7 and 1.2, respectively.

Scour downstream of hydraulic jump stilling basins can damage the surrounding area and can cause failure of the structure itself. Because of the study of such phenomenon has attracted the attention of researchers in the past. In the present study by constructing a model of spillways and stilling basin, The effect of B-jump characteristics on downstream scour was investigated. A total of 20 tests under 4 different Froude numbers and 5 different of jump position were carried out. The results indicated that at any discharge, the scour depth and length is decreased as the B-jump started at higher level. When the B-jump started at 14% of spillway depth, the non-dimensional scour depth and scour length decrease 7% and 19% respectively. The non-dimensional height of point bar downstream of scour hole was increased by 49%. Comparison of the results obtains in this study with other investigators finding shows good agreement for the case of B-jump scour.

The local scour around a bridge pier in recent years has been widely studied by different authors. They proposed different methods to control the scouring depth. Until now, many of authors have studied to find out how to control scouring around a pier along the straight stream. However, it may be required to construct a bridge across a bend of a river due to the some constraints. The objective of this research is to study a scour pattern around such piers on a bend due to the fact that there may be a difference between a flow pattern on a straight stream and the meander. Thus, this study tries to check whether the use of collar and cable together effects on scouring around bridge pier constructed on river meander. The results showed that as cable diameter increases and pitch of helix decrease, scouring depth will be decreased. The reduction of scouring depth by using cable does not exceed from 59% and alone collar reduces scour depth up to 55%. Using collar and cable together is reduced scour depth to 69.7%.

One of the methods for a local scour countermeasure at bridge piers is the use of submerged vanes. Vanes change the regime of bed load movement that led to control place of deposition and erosion. In this paper the effects of submerged vanes with different forms flat, curved and angled in number (2 and 6) and various configurations (the distance D and located on the pier symmetrically with respect to the flow line) on reducing local scour around cylindrical pier with angle of 20° was performed to investigate. Experiments were conducted in a 10 m long and 0.3 m wide flume and a cylindrical pier of 2.54 cm diameter. Clear-water scour tests with u*/u*c=0.92 were performed. The length of the vanes was equal the pier width and was installed on the bed. Results showed that reduction of scour with different arrays of six vanes was 93%. The highest reduction in scour depth was achieved for curved vanes are placed around the pier.