Salt based dam design in a hyper saline environment

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...

Fieldwork Coastal Engineering, Redesigning Cape Sirius, Varna, Bulgaria

This report is written for the course ‘Fieldwork Hydraulic Engineering’ held between the TU Delft and Sofia University. The course consisted of 19 participants who carried out measurements in and around the small village St Konstantin, near the Bulgarian city Varna, from the 29th of September till 6th of October. The report describes the results...