The kick-off meeting of the SERIOUS project (Synthetic design hydrographs under current and future climate for local bridge scour assessment) was successfully held on 1 April 2025 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb. The meeting gathered all members of the research team from five institutions in Croatia, Slovenia and Germany.

 

The aim of the SERIOUS project is to methodologically link climate change with local scour around bridge piers by developing a methodology to assess the influence of climate change on flood wave characteristics, calculate local scour, and compare the results with measured field data.

 

Within the project, a methodological framework will be also established for the derivation of synthetic design hydrographs (SDHs) using statistical approaches and machine learning methods to classify different shapes and typologies of hydrographs. In addition, hydrological modelling based on climate projections will be used to estimate future changes in SDHs.

 

The SERIOUS project is funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, under the project number HRZZ-IP-2024-05-1497.