Scour monitoring on bridge pier – methodology and implementation

Abstract

Managing the scour risk of civil structures such as bridge piers, constitutes a major challenge to sustainable development and land use planning. The SSHEAR project aims to build optimized diagnostic, warning and management methods to benefit civil structures. This article is focused on the "Field" approach of the project that develop continuous and real-time scour monitoring. Based on theoretical approach and river database analysis, requirement specifications definition allowed to choose relevant devices to monitor scour. To complete this monitoring system, vibration-based monitoring will also be installed.