Erosion of the beach of Historic Varadero, Cuba

Master project report. This report handles the erosion problems on the main tourist resort of Cuba, Varadero, situated on the Peninsula de Hicacos. With a length of 22 km, a maximum width of 500 m, The Peninsula de Hicacos constitutes a natural barrier separating the shallow waters of Cardenas Bay from the Florida Strait (Figure 1-3)....

Reinforced grass on inner dike slopes

This thesis shows a set of equations that define the micro-stability and macro-stability of reinforced grass revetments with geosynthetics on inner dike slope during an overtopping event. At micro-stability level, it has been analyzed that the equilibrium in a soil particle using the criterion of incipient motion of soil particle. The forces in...

Fieldwork Coastal Engineering: Preliminary design of an artificial island in the Black Sea, Varna, Bulgaria

From Sunday September 30th until October 7th, a group of 16 Hydraulic engineering students and one teacher went to Bulgaria. Three Bulgarian students and two Bulgarian teachers from Sofia University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geology joined them at their arrival in Varna. The students were given an assignment concerning the...

Ingleses - Brazil: Urban problems due to coastal morphology

MSc Project Hydraulic Engineering - Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Section Hydraulic Engineering and Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar. - The town of Ingleses on Santa Catarina Island, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is threatened by nature at...

Stability of rock on slopes under wave attack: Comparison and analysis of datasets Van der Meer [1988] and Van Gent [2003]

In VAN GENT [2004] graphs were presented in which the datasets of VAN DER MEER [1988] and VAN GENT ET AL. [2003] were compared, but in this comparison a number of parameters were not correctly transformed into a comparable format. In this M.Sc. thesis after an extensive analysis to the datasets all parameters of the datasets of Van der Meer were...

Next generation storage tanks

This study is intended to come up with potential alternatives for present crude oil storage resulting in benefits to the oil business based on developments in- and outside the storage and oil industry. In order to accomplish realistic storage alternatives, first an inventory of existing problems is drawn up. Used information is obtained from...

Experimental study on Xbloc placements for breakwater curvature sections

The use of concrete armour layer units is becoming more common nowadays as a replacement for the rock armour in the breakwater rubble mound design. The development of concrete armour units in time led to various individual types and forms with specific individual characteristics. One of the latest developments of concrete armour layer units is...