Flooding and Its Effects on River Bridges in Western Black Sea Region

2016-01-01
Baduna Koçyiğit, Müsteyde
Akay, Hüseyin
Yanmaz, Ali Melih
InvestigationoftheeventsoccurredinTurkeyinwhichriverbridgesareseverelydamagedorcollapsedshowedthattheseeventsareusuallyexperiencedduringfloodingandmostofthebridgescollapsedduetotheexcessivescouringaroundbridgepiers.Hence,besideslossoflifeandpropertydirectlycausedbyflooding,damagesandfailuresofriverbridgesandsimilarlossescausedbysuchdestructionsmustbetakenintoaccount.Floodscausesuddenandsubstantialincreaseinthewaterlevelandintheamountofflowoftherivers.Asaresultofthesesignificantchangesdynamicconditionsinbridgeopeningmightchange,pressurizedandweirflowsmighttakeplaceandscouringaroundpiersandabutmentsmightdeepen.Forallthesereasons,floodshavesignificantimportanceforriverbridgesandtheireffectsshouldbetakenintoaccountandassessed.InrecentyearsduetopossibleclimatechangesinTurkeyasallovertheWorldandchangesinrainfall-runoffrelationshipvariationsintheintensityandfrequencyoffloodsaredetected.Asaresult,riverbridgesmightbeundergreaterrisk.Toexaminetheaforementionedhydrauliceffectsandtodevelopasafety-inspectionmethodologyforriverbridgesaresearchstudyisbeingcarriedoutinWesternBlackSeaRegionwherefloodsandpartialorcompletefailuresofriverbridgesarefrequentlyobserved.Inthescopeofthecurrentstudythehydrauliceffectsontheriverbridgesareexaminedandtheirimpactsonbridgesareaimedtobetakenintoaccountandincorporatedintoasafety-inspectionsystem.Thispaperinformstheobservationsmadeduringfieldtripsofthecurrentresearch
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M. Baduna Koçyiğit, H. Akay, and A. M. Yanmaz, “Flooding and Its Effects on River Bridges in Western Black Sea Region,” Disaster Science and Engineering, pp. 29–35, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83489.