Print Email Facebook Twitter Morphological behaviour of shoreface nourishments along the Dutch coast Title Morphological behaviour of shoreface nourishments along the Dutch coast: Data analysis of historical shoreface nourishments for a better understanding and design Author Bruins, R.J. Contributor Stive, M.J.F. (mentor) Lodder, Q.J. (mentor) Walstra, D.J.R. (mentor) van der Spek, A.J.F. (mentor) van Prooijen, B.C. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2016-11-04 Abstract To counteract relative sea level rise, Rijkswaterstaat nourishes the Dutch coast with sand. This sand spreads out over the shoreface zone, beach and dunes. One of the nourishment types is the shoreface nourishment. In this thesis, data of historical shoreface nourishments along the Dutch coast is analysed to find the factors that influence this behaviour. This research showed that there are two main categories in the migration of shoreface nourishments. The first one migrates only in cross-shore direction and alongshore migration is negligible, this mainly occurs at beaches without influence of surrounding structures and the outer delta of the Wadden Sea. The second one migrates onshore and in alongshore direction, this category occurs mainly southward of the outer delta of the Wadden Sea. The migration can be predicted by the behaviour of the original bar system. The first one exists at coasts with primarily cross-shore bar behaviour and the second one at coasts with primarily alongshore or no bar behaviour. For future application of shoreface nourishments, it is recommended to analyse the original bar system and determine the location of execution on this analysis. If the location is determined, even the prediction for the migration can be determined based on the behaviour of the original bar system. Subject Coastal EngineeringSea level riseNourishmentsShoreface nourishmentDutch coastCoastal MaintenanceJARKUSCoastal morphologic dataSediment budgetMorphological behaviour To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e7585706-571d-4b97-8b89-d7c7abd9730c Coordinates 52.837214,4.680850 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Bruins, R.J. Files PDF M.Sc_. Thesis Morphologic ... . 2016.pdf 8.22 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e7585706-571d-4b97-8b89-d7c7abd9730c/datastream/OBJ/view