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Mulders, P.H.M. (author)During the construction of breakwaters contractors often encounter undesired reshaping of exposed core material. This reshaping is comparable to the deformation process of berm breakwaters in which the outer profile reshapes into a more stable s-curve. In the case of oblique waves this deformation is enhanced by a longshore transport of stones...master thesis 2010
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Coquet, M.A.J.P. (author)During the winter 2009, beach and dune nourishments have been executed at Vlugtenburg (Holland coast) in order to reinforce the coastal defense. Natural processes such as wind and waves are expected to take care of effective and efficient redistribution of the sand throughout the system. The present study is part of the sub-project Monitoring...master thesis 2010
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Donders, L.B. (author)On a national level need has arisen for Turkey to realise a new large capacity gateway port. At the Black Sea coast in the province Zonguldak a flat area is available at the delta of the regional river Filyos. According to a previous feasibility study this location is considered optimal for the port. The extent of the captive area is promising....master thesis 2010
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Jacobs, R.P.M. (author)The nearshore zone is an active zone that can be quite inhospitable to humans due to violent wave breaking and strong rip currents. Rip currents are shore normal jet-like currents that typically extend from near the shoreline out past the line of breaking waves. Observations have concluded that a rip current system generally consists of 4 parts....master thesis 2010
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Van Sabben, A.J. (author)For a proper management of rivers and river bends in particular, it is important to have good models to predict the flows through bends. It is important that those developed models are well validated with measurements to demonstrate the usefulness of the models. This research is a validation of the Delft3D-FLOW model which is a model that is...master thesis 2010
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Hoekstra, R. (author)In September and October of the year 2009, three sandgroyne nourishments have been executed at the Delfland Coast near the village of Ter Heijde. The nourishments have been executed to restore the sediment buffer in the upper part of the coastal profile. A sandgroyne is a concentrated amount of sediment (200.000m3) artificially nourished from...master thesis 2010
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Zoon, A. (author)A cobble sea defence appears to be an easy constructible protection, with relatively low total costs of ownership. Flume tests show that sand under such single layered constructions is stable. However, it is not exactly known how the hydraulic loading of a breaking wave is reducing in the filter. Two datasets containing pressure measurements in...master thesis 2010
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Kersten, M.K. (author)Albania has the following major sea ports: Durrës, Vlora, Sarandë and Shëngjin. The port of Durrës has the biggest share in the volume of import/export in Albania, nearly 75%. Due to current development rates, limited possibilities for expansion and pollution in the city because of its vicinity to the port, projects are identified to construct a...master thesis 2010
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Wijdenes, T. (author)Door de klimaatveranderingen voorziet de Deltacommissie 2008 problemen voor het Rijnmond gebied. De Maeslantkering en andere stormvloedkeringen zullen vaker moeten sluiten. Ook zullen de rivierafvoeren vaker extreme waardes aannemen. De kans dat een stormvloed samenvalt met een extreem hoge rivierafvoer neemt daarom toe. In het geval van een...master thesis 2010
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Lievense, L. (author)New Profile for the Amsterdam-Rhinecanal The aim of this thesis is to design a new profile for the Amsterdam-Rhine canal. The new profile needs to be well navigable and requires to have stable bank constructions. Simultaneously several social aspects have to be taken into consideration. The assignment is summarized as follows: Design a new...master thesis 2010
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Troost, S.T. (author)In 2000 the Dutch government chose a new point of view for the Dutch rivers: “Room for the River”. This viewpoint is the basis for a new approach of high water protection in the Netherlands. Instead of strengthening and raising the dikes, solutions must be based on space and spatial quality. One of the suggested measures is the addition of...master thesis 2010
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Jumelet, H.D. (author)This study describes a theoretical approach of a physical description of the notional permeability factor in the stability formulae of Van der Meer [1988]. Caused by the empirical character of these stability formulae a physical description is not available for the notional permeability factor. In practice this leads to ambiguities in...master thesis 2010
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Labrujere, A.L. (author)Carbon Footprinting is a method of determining the environmental impact of a product or service. It focuses only on pollutions to the air by greenhouse gasses. There is a strong focus on these gases caused by intergovernmental alliances that restrict the amount of emitted gas. These agreements have been made, as a result of the widely accepted...master thesis 2010
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De Jong, R.H. (author)In 2008 kwam de tweede Deltacommissie met het voorstel om het waterpeil van het IJsselmeer in de toekomst met 1,5 m te verhogen. Door de verwachte zeespiegelstijging zal het namelijk steeds moeilijker worden om het overtollige water van het IJsselmeer af te voeren naar zee. Om dit onder vrij verval te kunnen blijven doen is een peilopzet...master thesis 2010
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Broersen, W.A. (author)Introduction Dong Lam Cement Factory is developing a new clinker plant in Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam. The clinker has to be exported towards Ho Chi Minh City, where it is grinded into cement and used for the construction industry. For the clinker production coal is needed and has to be imported. To make the in- and export possible a new...master thesis 2010
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Boeyinga, J. (author)The workability of floating construction equipment is one of the elements in the construction phasing of the design of the Ashdod port extension in the south of Israel by DHV Consultancy and Engineering. Waves play an important role in the workability of floating equipment, since they induce motions to floating equipment with the possibility of...master thesis 2010
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Das, I.L.L. (author)Since the completion of the Eastern Scheldt project in 1987, in the south-western part of The Netherlands, there has been a decrease of tidal volume, range and current in the Eastern Scheldt estuary. This has led to morphologic changes in the basin. The channels are in demand of sediment and as the Eastern Scheldt barrier itself blocks most of...master thesis 2010
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Wierda, C.H. (author)In order to build structures in the hyper saline environment of the Dead Sea it might be beneficial to use salt as a construction material. The Dead Sea is a tectonically active area with a subsoil consisting of at least eight meters of salt. It is a challenge to construct in this kind of environment, especially since no design criteria exist...master thesis 2010
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Mous, B.C. (author)Against the background of enhanced hydraulic loads due to climate change there will be a need for improvement of the flood defence system in the Netherlands in the future. These days there is a growing interest in grass as a dike cover because it is a cheap and a sustainable dike protection. Yet at the moment there is a hiatus in the knowledge...master thesis 2010
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Kemp, L. (author)The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon area has a lot of sandbars but they are eroding. Since the building of the Glen Canyon Dam and the Hoover Dam in the 1960s, sediment is trapped in the upstream lake. The inflow of water is clear, cold and nearly sediment free. The only noticeable remaining inflow of sediment in the Colorado River is by two...master thesis 2010