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Research project

Debris Effects on BRIdge resilience and Flooding

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Gustavo De Almeida

Associate Professor
Connect with Gustavo

Email: [email protected]

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