Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
NHESS
Articles | Volume 17, issue 8
Articles | Volume 17, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1393-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Special issue:
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1393-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 8
Research article
 | 
11 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 11 Aug 2017

Vulnerability of bridges to scour: insights from an international expert elicitation workshop

Rob Lamb, Willy Aspinall, Henry Odbert, and Thorsten Wagener

Viewed

Total article views: 4,467 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
2,369 1,927 171 4,467 185 209
  • HTML: 2,369
  • PDF: 1,927
  • XML: 171
  • Total: 4,467
  • BibTeX: 185
  • EndNote: 209
Views and downloads (calculated since 25 Nov 2016)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 25 Nov 2016)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 4,467 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 4,180 with geography defined and 287 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 
Latest update: 08 Nov 2025
Download
Short summary
Scour (erosion) during floods can cause bridges to collapse. Modern design and maintenance mitigates the risk, so failures are rare. The residual risk is uncertain, but expert knowledge can help constrain it. We asked 19 experts about scour risk using methods designed to treat judgements alongside other scientific data. The findings identified knowledge gaps about scour processes and suggest wider uncertainty about scour risk than might be inferred from observation, models or experiments alone.
Read more
Share
Special issue
Risk and uncertainty estimation in natural hazards
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint