%0 Generic %A Ferradosa, T %A Taveira Pinto, F %A Oliveira, B %A Simons, RR %A Porter, K %C Porto, Portugal %D 2014 %F discovery:1457387 %I IAHR Europe Congress %K Scour Curve, Foundations, Layered Sediments, Linear, Exponential and Hyperbolic fitting %P 90 - 99 %T Scour around marine foundations in layered sediments: a mathematical modelling approach %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457387/ %V 3 %X In order to improve the understanding of scour processes in layered conditions for offshore foundations, a laboratory study was conducted regarding equilibrium scour depth vs. time curve and its adjustment to hyperbolic and exponential/linear combined functions. The present paper provides a mathematical study describing a set of scour tests in order to clarify the scour depth evolution for complex, non-cohesive soil configurations.