Bridge scour, the erosional removal of soil around bridge foundations by flowing water, poses a critical threat to infrastructure safety worldwide. Monitoring and assessment methods have evolved to ...

Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of natural hazards like flooding. In turn, floodwaters erode a bridge's foundation, creating scour holes that compromise the integrity of the ...

Climate change will ultimately affect our bridges. But to what extent? That is the essential question addressed by Lehigh University researchers David Yang and Dan M. Frangopol in a paper recently ...