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    THE MECHANICS OF SCOUR IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

    by B Mutlu Sumer (Technical University of Denmark) & Jørgen Fredsøe (Technical University of Denmark)

    B Mutlu Sumer graduated with a MSc and PhD from the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Civil Engineering. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Hydraulics at ITU before he moved to Denmark in 1984. He has been with the Technical University of Denmark since then. His main fields of research are flow around marine structures (scour, forces, hydroelastic vibrations), and sediment transport. He has coordinated SCARCOST (Scour Around Coastal Structures) and has been coordinating LIMAS (Liquefaction Around Marine Structures), two European research programmes financed by the European Community under MAST III and FP5 programmes, respectively. He has done consultancy work for Danish companies on scour and scour protection in connection with wind mills, subsea structures and pipelines.
     

    Jørgen Fredsøe is Professor at the Technical University of Denmark since 1986. He is PhD in sediment transport in 1974, and has had a close connection to the Danish Hydraulic Institute (now: DHI Water and Environment) since 1974 until now. Also he has acted as a consultant for many other Consulting Companies in Denmark and abroad, and for the World Bank. His main scientific interest lies in River and Coastal Sediment transport, and flow around offshore structures.
     

    This book treats the subject of local scour around different kinds of marine structures, exposed to waves and/or currents. The first, major part of the book is devoted to marine pipelines, describing in detail all kinds of scour scenarios, and also making recommendations for scour protection. Other kinds of structures considered are single piles (slender or large), groups of piles, complex subsea structures, breakwaters, and seawalls. The scour due to ship propellers is also described. The book deals mainly with the scour in noncohesive sediment but, whenever possible, available literature on the scour in finer sediment has been incorporated. In addition, a chapter on the impact of wave-induced liquefaction is included.

    The authors' aim is to describe in detail the hydrodynamic processes causing the erosion. With a hydrodynamic understanding, it is easier for the consulting engineer to predict scour in those many cases where physical model tests are not available.

     
    Contents:
    • Introduction and Basic Concepts
    • Scour Below Pipelines
    • Scour Around a Single Slender Pile
    • Scour Around a Group of Slender Piles
    • Examples of More Complex Configurations
    • Scour Around Large Piles
    • Scour Around Breakwaters
    • Scour at Seawalls
    • Ship-Propeller Scour
    • Impact of Liquefaction
     
    Readership: MSc and PhD students as well as consulting engineers in ocean and environmental engineering.
     
    “The book should be useful as a course textbook or for independent study, and it works well as a design reference with material organized about particular categories of structures.”
    Dr Steven Hughes

    Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ASCE)
     
    “Periodically, the authors provide examples as to how the various equations can be used to make scour predictions. This practice is very helpful for the reader … In short, this is a well-written text that holds the readers' interest and is likely to become a well-used reference for those who must deal with scour in the marine environment.”
    Professor Stephen R McLean
    Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE)
     
    “All in all, this book will be valuable to both the practitioner looking for an urgent solution to a site-specific problem and the academic researcher embarking on scour-related research. The authors provide step-by-step guidance with simple formulae and worked examples, as well as in-depth discussions and derivations. The writing style and organisation of the material is easy to follow, the figures are very clear, and the price is inexpensive making it well worth adding to the bookshelf. The serious researcher or practitioner will find it useful to have the earlier books on marine scour as well, since all three have their own strengths. This book leaves no stone unturned — indeed, reading it one wonders what unanswered questions in scour are left for tomorrow's researchers to study.”
    Professor Richard Soulsby
    Coastal Engineering
     
    552pp    Pub. date: Apr 2002  
    ISBN:   978-981-02-4930-4
    981-02-4930-6
       US$87 / £69

     


     

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