Laboratory Investigation of Flow Control Structures for Highway Stream Crossings: Final Laboratory Report

摘要

The Federal Highway Administration has sponsored a program to investigate flow control structures for highways in river environments. The impetus for this program is the problem of lateral erosion of stream channel banks in the vicinity of highway embankments that may threaten the existence of the roadways. The objective of the overall Federal Highway Administration program as conducted under contract with The Sutron Corporation is to provide guidelines for the use of spurs for bank protection, flow control alignment for highway embankments and stream crossings. An element of this program is to determine, through laboratory research, additional knowledge of the hydraulic effects and design parameters of spurs.