Development of wave and surge atlas for the design and protection of coastal bridges in south Louisiana - phase 2, tech summary.

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• Creators:
  Sheppard, D. Max
• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Contributors:
  Cooper, Samuel B., III.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Louisiana. Department of Transportation and Development ; Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Analysis
  • Atlases
  • Bridges
  • Coasts
  • Databases
  • Geographic information systems
  • Hurricanes
  • Risk assessment
  • Storm surges
  • Water waves
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  LTRC Report 568
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Louisiana
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  The first phase of this project, documented in LTRC Final Report 528, developed meteorological/ ; oceanographic (met/ocean) data for the 100-year storm return period in south Louisiana and presented the ; data in a GIS platform known as the Wave and Surge Atlas. ; This report documents the second phase of the project that developed met/ocean data for the 5-, 10-, 25-, ; and 50-year storm return periods in south Louisiana, extracting the maximum met/ocean data occurring ; when hindcasting 50 of the most severe tropical storms/hurricanes that affected Louisiana over the past 160 ; years, and hindcasting alternative paths for a select number of those storms for a total of 124 hindcasts. This ; information has been added to the previously developed Wave and Surge Atlas. ; Phase 2 also developed a calculator for solving the wave force equations from ; AASHTO’s Guide Specifications for Bridges Vulnerable to Coastal Storms and evaluated ; all spans of the bridges identified as potentially vulnerable during Phase 1.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/60000/60000/60090/ts_568.pdf
• Funding:
  SIO No. DOTLT1000041 ; LTRC Project No. 15-1ST
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31291/dot_31291_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 196.03 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ca6792fadacccbbc0d09cacb834180cd78499424c3407476019691f1eae3e1b5