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

"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."

"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."
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"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."