SCOUR AROUND A SINGLE CENTRAL CYLINDRICAL BRIDGE PIER LOCATED IN A BENDA laboratory work is conducted to study the scour at nose of the pier around single circular pier fixed at each 45° bend at incipient conditions. These scour values at bend piers are compared with straight channel pier. It is found that scour values of bend piers are larger.

Preety Verma, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and Z Ahmad, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India