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Assessing Riprap Stability at Bride Piers and Abutments

COURSE NO: C01-301I
PDH CREDIT: 1
COURSE PROVIDER: Gilbert Gedeon, P.E.
Assessing Riprap Stability at Bride Piers and Abutments
Course Highlights

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an advanced numerical modelling approach to evaluate rock stability at bridge piers and abutments.

Riprap is one of the most common materials used to protect bridge abutment and pier foundations from scour. A key element of the design of riprap countermeasures is rock sizing, which is based on equations generally derived from simplified laboratory experiments.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for designers and engineers responsible for protecting bridge foundations.

Learning Objectives

This continuing education interactive presentation is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Assessing whether detailed fluid structure interaction (FSI) modeling can inform evaluation of rock riprap movement for both the analysis of existing riprap aprons and for the design of new riprap aprons
  • Developing recommendations for the design, installation, and monitoring of riprap aprons at bridge piers and abutments, where feasible
  • Testing the FSI approach on a complex field case study of a riprap installation at a pier for a bridge
Course Document
For this course, you will need to go through the interactive presentation "Assessing Riprap Stability at Bride Piers and Abutments". To access the presentation, you will need to log in or register and purchase the course. Following the course purchase, please click on the link provided in your account to view the presentation. The duration of this presentation is approximately 73 minutes.
This particular course document is accessible only after purchase.

Course Quiz

Once you finish watching the PDH interactive presentation, you will be redirected to your account to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions to earn 1 PDH credit. The quiz will be based on this interactive presentation.

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

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