Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development

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Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development – Sung, Kao & Chen (eds)

© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00053-7

Evaluation model to predict bridge scour status

based on rainfall events

Chung-Wei Feng, Hsun-Yi Huang & Yu-Wen Hong

Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

ABSTRACT: Bridge scour is a long-term process that occurs underwater and cannot be observed

directly. Thus, bridge failure due to scour tends to occur suddenly and cause disasters. To prevent bridge

scour failure and disasters, an evaluation model to plan maintenance against bridge scour is necessary.

This paper proposes a model that integrates a genetic algorithm, artificial neural networks, and Monte

Carlo simulation ...