Scour and Erosion Services
AquaVision Engineering offers specific consulting in the field of scour and erosion at hydraulic
structures. Examples are scour formation in natural rock or plunge pools downstream of high-head dams, or also erosion, abrasion and/or destruction of concrete linings of energy dissipation structures such as stilling basins, spillway chutes, etc. Dr E. Bollaert co-organized the International Workshop on Rock Scour at EPFL, Switzerland in 2002 and edited the work "Rock Scour due to High-Velocity Falling Jets", Swets & Zeitlinger, The Netherlands. He has almost 20 years of experience in scour and erosion at hydraulic structures and is the developer of the Comprehensive Scour Model (CSM, 2002), a completely physically based engineering model to estimate scour formation at dams and hydraulic structures.
capability to predict scour formation as a function of time and intensity of flood events. The model is applicable to any kind of fracturable medium, such as rock, clay, concrete, blockworks, etc. worldwide, mainly in the Middle East, United States, Australia and Europe. It may actually be considered as the most advanced dam foundation scour model readily available for practical engineering. river banks.