How To Use Help

This help includes documentation of the program and the context sensitive help on each required input data.

For the documentation, user can browse through the topics starting from the table of contents (home page) and use browsing menu to read topics in sequential order. User can also choose a specific topic to read from the Table of Contents. The topics are grouped into two major groups; one for abutment scour and one for pier scour. The bottomless culvert is a special case of the abutment scour and is not grouped. Some general topics are not grouped. User can read the ungrouped topics from the Table of Contents.

Click here to start browsing abutment scour documentation

Click here to start browsing pier scour documentation

Click here for bottomless culvert scour documentation

For the help on the input data, user can hover the mouse pointer over the input data cell. The program will display a short hint at the status bar at bottom of the input form. For more extended help, while the input data is in focus, press the <F1> key, and the program will display the extended help on the help window.