Determination of the Most Important Parameters on Scour at Coastal Structures

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 Determination of the Most Important Parameters on Scour at Coastal Structures

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Yeganeh-Bakhtiary A, Ghorbani MA and Pourzangbar A.
 Journal. Civil Eng. Urban. 2(2): 68-71. 2012.

ABSTRACT: Scour at coastal structures is one of the major problems that may lead to their failure. Therefore, predicting accurate scour depth at coastal structures is important. Extensive laboratory studies have been conducted predicting the maximum scour depth. These studies have developed their formulas using the limited set of effective input parameters. This study presents an alternative to the conventionally regression-based equations in the form of genetic programming (GP) in order to predict the maximum scour depth at coastal structures under the action of breaking waves. To determine the effective parameters, different models with various combinations of input parameters were considered. Parameters such as reflection coefficient, relative water depth at the toe of the structure, the serf similarity parameter, Shields parameter and breaking wave steepness and the wave breaking depth were found to be best inputs. 46 data sets compiled from published literatures were used to train and test the networks or evolve the models. Statistical parameters including the root mean square error, determination coefficient, scatter index and BIAS are used to measure their performance. The results indicate that relative water depth at the toe of the structure plays a crucial role in the scour process.
Keywords: Coastal structures; breaking waves; Genetic programming; Scour depth; Regression-based equations.

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