A Systematic Approach of Greek Coastal Zone Management

Additional MSc thesis Greece owns the most extensive coastline of all European countries. Greek economy relies on the protection and the development of the coast, where major economic activities take place and where about 60% of the population lives. Despite the crucial role of the coastal zone in Greece, there is no organized integrated act...

Probabilistic design of breakwaters in shallow, hurricane-prone areas

One of the failure mechanisms of a rubble mound breakwater is the failure of its armour layer. In order to determine the stability of an armour layer, the design load has to be defined, which is in fact the wave that attacks the structure. Being a highly stochastic phenomenon, the wave action is not easily defined, while there is always some...

Fieldwork coastal engineering: Preliminary design of a floating marina, Varna, Bulgaria

The beach in front of the hotel Sirius is suffering from a retreating coastline. Bathymetry and beach profiles were measured. With the data from previous years the long term evolution of the coast was analyzed. The main conclusions were that the beach in front of the Sirius hotel is still suffering from erosion and if this erosion trend...