Standing at the edge of the pier and looking through a mobile device held up against the sky, viewers will see an enormous, fiery mushroom cloud swell up from the surface of the ocean before exploding. The sudden boom, whipping wind and steady roar are part of a soundscape created by L.A.-based artist and composer Anna Luisa Petrisko.
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After collecting their luggage, guests should proceed to customs. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transfer service will be provided by Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: +34 606-289-559.
Transfer service is available from either George Bush Intercontinental or Houston Hobby Airport. After collecting luggage, guests should proceed to one of the meeting points listed below. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: 386-753-8237.
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed to customs and into the arrivals area. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transfer service will be provided by Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: (+351) 917 630 855.
After collecting their luggage, guests proceed to customs and into the arrivals area. Once there, a representative will be located at the meeting points below and will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transfer service will be provided by Intercruises Shoreside and Port Services. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: +44 798-988-1258.
After collecting luggage, proceed to one of the meeting points listed below. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transfers service will be provided by Metro Shore Services. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: 310-816-6600
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed to baggage claim carousel one (1). Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Guests who arrive prior to their sail date must return to the airport no later than 10:00 AM on the day of sailing to meet with a representative at the meeting point mentioned above.
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed towards the Private Transportation area; a transfer service representative will be located between Door 3 and Door 4. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Guests who arrive prior to their sail date must return to the airport no later than 10:00 AM on the day of sailing to meet with a representative at the meeting point mentioned above.
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed to one of the Welcome Center locations listed below. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transfers service will be provided by Intercruises Shoreside and Port Services. Should guests have questions regarding the transfer service, the transfer provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: 347-224-9398.
After collecting luggage guests would proceed to one of the meeting points listed below. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Transportation service is provided by Sunward Tours. Service is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM. Should guests have questions regarding the transportation service, the transportation provider can be reached at the following contact number on the day of the sailing only: 386-866-0914.
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed to Customs and into the Arrivals area. The meeting point is at Terminal 3, Arrivals, door number 1 (indoor) where a Carnival representative will meet guests and escort them to the pier transportation.
After collecting luggage, guests should proceed towards baggage claim area of the Red or Blue side near the elevators. Once there, a representative will escort guests to the pier transportation. Guests who arrive prior to their sail date must return to the airport no later than 10:00 AM on the day of sailing to meet with a representative at the meeting point mentioned above.
Bridge pier scour threatens the stability of bridges. Several approaches practiced counterbalancing the base of piers from scour, but the use of a collar with protection is considered as effective countermeasure. Present study examines the scour around rectangular cross-sectional pier by applying a rectangular hooked collar, under clear water condition. Various dimensions of hooked collar wall height to hooked collar width ([H.sub.w]/[H.sub.wh] = 0.05 to 0.30) at the bed level are experimentally tested. To quantify the effectiveness of the scour protection, the result of unprotected rectangular pier is referenced. Similar trend is observed in all the side wall height that by changing the wall height from 0.3[W.sub.p] scour starts increasing. Likewise, by reducing the width of the hooked collar up to 1.5[W.sub.p] equilibrium scour depth is observed to be significantly decreased. Further, the laboratory experimental runs showed that width of 1.5Wp along with side wall height of 0.3Wp is the most effective dimension for a hooked collar which may be utilized for rectangular unprotected piers. Lastly, the most suitable configuration reduced almost 52.2% of scouring depth compared to referenced experimental run.
Scouring around bridge piers is a crucial hydraulic engineering problem. It is broadly acknowledged that localized scouring is one of the main causes of bridge collapse apart from structural design issues, inadequate maintenance, and traffic overloading [1-6]. The local scouring of a bridge pier is mainly due to the downwards direction currents at the location of pier front. The scouring mechanism is intensified, and the scouring pit is expanding and wider because of a horseshoe vortex formation at the base of the pier [5, 7-11]. Thus, proper understanding of scouring process and more precise scour depth estimation around pier shape is of utmost significance in Civil engineering.
The shape of the pier is one of the key factors commonly acknowledged as the escalation of the local scour problems to bridges. In the development and consolidation of the vortex formation, the shape of the pier plays a key role [12-14]. In the past, researchers have investigated scouring actions and the flow patterns around circular cross-sectional piers [3, 15-18]. Likewise, numerous scour countermeasures are utilized around cylindrical cross secctional piers to reduce the maximum scour depth. Investigations on piers with circular shapes suggested that collar protection can be effective in controlling local scour [19-25]. Furthermore, Chen et al.; [26] examined the hooked collar performance by analysing multiple positionings of hooked collar at pier and comparing it with pier without any protection. In their research, they utilized a hooked collar having 1.25W width, 0.25W hook height, and 5 mm thickness in which W is width of pier. They noticed that it was effective to reduce local scour by placing a hooked collar at channel bed.
Moreover, Farooq and Ghumman [27] conducted clear bed scour experiments to investigate the influence of various geometries of pier on the depth of final scour. They reported that pier with octagonal cross section was observed to be more effective in minimizing local scouring compared to other pier shapes. Recently, Farooq et al. [28] performed experiments to optimize the octagonal hooked collar and assess its efficiency on octagonal cross-sectional pier. A collar with hook provision having width and side wall height of 2.5[W.sub.p] and 0.45[W.sub.p], respectively, was the best in reducing scour depth for octagonal pier shape, where [W.sub.p] is the pier width.
Further, it is noticed from the literature that two pier shapes, such as circular and rectangular, which are often found in concrete and existing steel bridges, are the key subject of previous studies [29-32]. However, as discussed earlier a lot of studies are available in which scour countermeasures were applied around circular piers; contrary, no information of scour countermeasures are observed around rectangular cross sectional piers, except for a few studies of simple collar and riprap countermeasures [25, 33-35] based on limited experimental data.
Various researchers have recently examined a new form of collar having provision of hook around circular and octagonal pier shapes [26, 28]. They concluded that the performance of pier protected with hooked collar is satisfactorily improved in comparison to pier protected with simple collar. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to optimize the dimensions of hooked collar around rectangular cross-sectional piers, based on the optimization procedure recommended by Farooq et al. [28].
All the experimental runs are conducted in a leveled flume channel (length = 20 m, width = 1m, and depth = 0.75 m), having a recirculating system. The channel has concrete base, having a straight entrance inlet, and a thickness of 1.2 cm sidewall glass. The channel is distributed in three parts: inlet, main section, and outlet.The main segment includes uniformly graded layer of sand bed which is 6 meter long and 0.3 meter thick and the pier is centered at the middle of the sediment bed and fixed on the bed of the flume with glue.This segment is used to perform all scour experiments. The bridge pier is positioned in such a manner that the pier's center overlaps the flume's mid-section. A gated weir of rectangular shape is placed towards the outlet segment of the flume, through which flow discharge is measured. Fig. 1a, Fig. 1b show a cross sectional and side view sketch of the experimental setup. 2ff7e9595c
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