Engineering and Hydrosystems

Annandale's Erodibility Index

  • To ensure public safety infrastructure requires protection against the effects of scour.
  • E&H developed Annandale's Erodibility Index Method that can be used to predict scour in any earth or engineered earth material.
  • The method correlates rate of energy dissipation of flowing water to a geo-mechanical index of the material, defining erosion threshold conditions.
  • E&H has applied this method to develop bio-engineering and drop structure designs; and to estimate scour at bridge piers, pipelines, and dam spillways, among others.
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