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Special Issue on Scour and Erosion by ISSMGE TC213 Published

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue #4 of Volume #7 of the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, an official Journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).

This Special Issue of the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, edited by Guest Editor Prof. Shinji Sassa, ISSMGE TC213 Chair, presents six well-documented case studies that covers a broad range of scour and erosion, from road embankment scour and erosion to river bridge scour with their countermeasures, coastal erosion, scour and internal erosion, and marine scour at/around offshore structures, from America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

Papers published in this refereed journal are freely available in color and are accompanied by databases that include the electronic data presented in the paper as well as additional figures (as necessary). The locations of the case histories are also positioned in the IJGCH Geographic Database.

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Papers published in this journal are downloaded many thousands of times. Please consider the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories for the publication of well-documented case histories.

Paper Title: Foreword, pp. i

Authors: Jean-Louis Briaud

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Paper Title: Scour and Erosion: A Global Perspective, pp. ii–iii

Authors: Shinji Sassa

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Paper Title: Bridge Abutment Remediation – A Case Study, pp. 1-7

Authors: Mogana Sundaram, Jun Sugawara, Siva Sivakumar

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Paper Title: Improving Scour Estimates with NextScour for the Lafayette Avenue Bridge Replacement Project, pp. 8–28

Authors: Haoyin Shan, James Pagenkopf, Chen Li, Nasi Zhang, Daniel Pastrich, Otto Wiblishauser, Chao Huang, Kornel Kerenyi

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Paper Title: Emergency Bridge Scour Countermeasure in Marin County, California, United States, pp. 29–38

Authors: Catherine M.C. Avila

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Paper Title: Coastal Road Slope Collapses Behind a Retaining Wall Due to Scour and Erosion, pp. 39-49

Authors: Ryota Tsubokawa, Yasunari Iida, Yuji Ushiwatari, Tatsuya Matsuda, Masashi Ochi, Makoto Miyatake, Shinji Sassa

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Paper Title: Probabilistic Assessment and Comparison of Scour Protections at Horns Rev 3 and Egmond aan Zee Offshore Wind Farms, pp. 50–58

Authors: João Chambel, Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, Rui Figueiredo, Paulo Rosa-Santos, Francisco Taveira Pinto

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Paper Title: Scour Prediction in Cohesive Marine Soils: A Hybrid Approach, pp. 59–75

Authors: John M. Harris, Nikolas S. Tavouktsoglou, Amelia Couldrey, Richard J.S. Whitehouse, Jamie Klapper

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The ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories is an official journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, focusing on the publication of well- documented case histories.

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Special Issue on Scour and Erosion by ISSMGE TC213 Published
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