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USE OF SPURS AND GUIDEBANKS FOR HIGHWAY CROSSINGS

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00390828

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Abstract:

Bridge engineers often need to protect bridge abutments from scour; maintain, stabilize, and improve the alignment of a stream approaching a bridge crossing; protect the bank of a stream along a highway; maintain a stream in a given location; maintain or decrease the width of a stream; protect highway approaches to a bridge crossing across flood plains; and improve the hydraulic characteristics of the bridge opening. Spurs and guidebanks are structures river engineers use to fill this need. Other names for spurs aree dikes, jetties, spur dikes, retards, and dyke fields. Spurs and guidebanks are described and design recommendations based on a literature review are given. (Author)

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appeared in Transportation Research Record Number 950, Volume 2, Second Bridge Engineering Conference, conducted by the Transportation Research Board and the Federal Highway Administration, September 24-26, 1984. Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Quality. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Monograph Accession #:

01419841

Authors:

Richardson, E V
Simons, Daryl B

Editors:

Kassabian, Naomi
Herman, Scott C
Kaplan, Elizabeth W
Starkey, Jane

Pagination:

pp 184-193

Publication Date:

1984

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 950
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

03090036593

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (13) ; References (48) ; Tables (1)

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Subject Areas:

Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls

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TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Dec 30 1984 12:00AM