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Debris Effects on BRIdge resilience and Flooding

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Gustavo De Almeida

Associate Professor

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Environmental Hydraulics

Our group is internationally known for its research on various aspects of Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Fluids Mechanics, such as: low-head hydropower, wave energy, sediment transport, development of numerical and mathematical models, among others.

Research outputs

Temporal evolution of clear-water local scour at bridge piers with flow-dependent debris accumulations
Francisco Nicolas Cantero-Chinchilla,
Gustavo De Almeida,
& Costantino Manes
, 2021 , Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001920
Type: article
Influence of Pier Geometry and Debris Characteristics on Wood Debris Accumulations at Bridge Piers
Diego Panici,
& Gustavo De Almeida
, 2020 , Journal of Hydraulic Engineering , 146 (6)
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001757
Type: article
A theoretical analysis of the fluid-solid interactions governing the removal of woody debris jams from cylindrical bridge piers
Diego Panici,
& Gustavo De Almeida
, 2020 , Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 886
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2019.1048
Type: article
Formation, growth, and failure of debris jams at bridge piers
Diego Panici,
& Gustavo De Almeida
, 2018 , Water Resources Research , 54 (9) , 6226--6241
DOI: 10.1029/2017WR022177
Type: article