Year: 2008
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Bank erosion is the most common problem faced in river engineering practices in many countries, especially in Bangladesh and this has been recognized as an awful threat to the society.So control of erosion is very much important to save agricultural land, property and infrastructures like bridges, culverts, buildings etc. located alongside the rivers.Treatment of bank erosion is usually expensive and is not particularly susceptible to engineering analysis.Because diagnosis and prediction of bank erosion is often difficult as it may be caused by a number of factors operating separately or together.Engineers play a dominant role to design the optimum bank protection works, which sounds justified both technically and economically.In this paper the probable causes, mechanisms and methods of predictions of bank erosion and sustainable strategies of different bank protection measures with special attention to economic analysis are briefly discussed.
Author: Md. Shofiul Islam
Language: English
Subfield: Earth-Surface Processes
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3084243681