Download e-book for kindle: Design of Coastal Structures and Sea Defenses (Series on by Young C Kim

Coastal constructions are an immense part in any coastal defense scheme. They at once keep watch over wave and hurricane surge motion or to stabilize a seashore which gives safety to the coast.

This ebook presents the main updated technical advances at the layout and building of coastal buildings and sea defenses.

Written by means of well known practising coastal engineers, this edited quantity makes a speciality of the newest expertise utilized in making plans, layout and development, powerful engineering technique, specified initiatives and difficulties, layout and building demanding situations, and different lesions learned.

Many books were written concerning the theoretical remedy of coastal and ocean buildings. less has been written concerning the sensible perform element of ocean constructions and sea defenses. This complete ebook fills the space. it's a vital resource of reference for pros and researchers within the components of coastal, ocean, civil, and geotechnical engineering.

Contents:

• Simulators as Hydraulic try amenities at Dikes and different Coastal buildings (Jentsje W van der Meer)
• Design, development and function of the most Breakwater of the hot Outer Port at Punto Langosteira, los angeles Coruña, Spain (Hans F Burcharth, Enrique Maciñeira Alonso, and Fernando Noya Arquero)
• Performance layout for Maritime constructions (Shigeo Takahashi, Ken-ichiro Shimosako, and Minoru Hanzawa)
• An Empirical method of seashore Nourishment formula (Timothy W Kana, Haiqing Liu Kaczkowski, and Steven B Traynum)
• Tidal strength Exploitation in Korea (Byung Ho Choi, Kyeong okay Kim and Jae Cheon Choi)
• A Floating cellular Quay for tremendous box Ships in a Hub Port (Jang-Won Chae and Woo-Sun Park)
• Surrogate Modeling for storm Wave and Inundation Prediction (Jane McKee Smith, Alexandros A Taflanidis and Andrew B Kennedy)
• Statistical equipment for threat evaluation of Harbor and Coastal constructions (Sebastián Solari and Miguel A Losada)

Readership: Researchers, pros, lecturers and graduate scholars in coastal, ocean, civil and geotechnical engineering.