Persistence of scour at bridges using stochastic simulations

Pizarro, Alonso; Link, Oscar; Koutsoyiannis, Demetris

doi:10.5194/nhess-26-5573-2026

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Persistence of scour at bridges using stochastic simulations

Alonso Pizarro, Oscar Link, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis

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