Wave Impact Pressure-Impulse on Vertical Structures with Overhangs

The study of wave impact physics and magnitudes are key for the design of vertical coastal hydraulic structures. This research addresses the study of standing wave impacts on vertical coastal hydraulic structures with a relatively short horizontal overhang, which is especially relevant for structures such as lock gates, sluice gates, dewatering...

Storm Surge Barrier: Overview and Design Considerations

In this study an overview of existing and planned storm surge barriers in the world is provided. A systematic analysis relates functional requirements (e.g. navigation and tidal exchange) to the main barrier characteristics (e.g. gate type, dimensions). Furthermore, as the costs of barriers are an important issue in the planning, available cost...

Advances in coastal disasters risk management: Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku tsunami

The earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 led to death and destruction in coastal areas in Japan. A seminar was held in June 2012 for Japanese and Dutch coastal researchers to discuss lessons for the management of the risks in coastal areas associated with tsunamis, typhoons and storm surges. The seminar has highlighted important practical and...

The Causes and Mechanisms of Historical Dike Failures in the Netherlands

In a historical perspective, flood protection in the past was not given high priority - plague and periods of famine and war took precedence. Poverty and a lack of knowledge made it difficult to create safer dikes. Dike engineering did improve in Napoleonic era due to the French Central Government, but many dikes still failed. A historical...

Risk analysis of coastal flood defences: A Vietnam case

This paper aims at risk analysis and the investigation of safety aspects of coastal flood defences in Vietnam. The sea dike system has been actually designed by a 20 to 25 years return period. From the current situation it seems that the dike system is not sufficient to withstand the actual sea boundary conditions. Accurate safety assessment of...

Low Cost Rock Structures for Beach Control and Coast Protection: Practical design guidance

Coastal rock structures are widely used in coastal engineering for a variety of purposes, including controlling the morphological development of beaches and providing protection against coastal erosion or flooding by wave overtopping. Strict adherence to existing design guidance has resulted in many of these structures being built using multiple...

Hydraulic and coastal structures in international perspective

The objective of this paper is to bring some international perspectives on the policy, design, construction, and monitoring aspects of Hydraulic and Coastal Structures in general, and whenever possible, to present some comparison (or reasons for differences) between the experiences of various countries and/or geographical regions. This chapter...

Low-exceedance wave overtopping events: Measurements of velocities and the thickness of water-layers on the crest and inner slope of dikes

Introduction to coastal engineering

Lecture notes on genesis of the coastline, climatology, oceanography, coastal morphology, coastal formations, coastalzonde management, tidal inlets and estuaries, pollution and density problems, practical problems and common solutions.

Low-exceedance wave overtopping events: Estimates of wave overtopping parameters at the crest and landward side of dikes

Physical model investigations on coastal structures with shallow foreshores: 2D model tests with single and double-peaked wave energy spectra

Uitgangspunten recente studies waterbeheer

Estimation of the frequencies of failure of coastal structures from offshore data of environmental loads: A pilot study focusing on The Netherlands

Manual of Odiflocs

This manual gives information about how to use the P.C.-model ODIFLOCS. The wave action on and in several types of coastal structures can be computed. The necessary input data and the output data have been described. Although many phenomena are implemented in the model, which resulted in rather accurate predictions of several properties, further...

Design and Reliability of Coastal Structures

Contributions of a short course connected to the 23rd international conference on coastal engineering (ICCE 1992) in Venice, Scuola di S. Gioovanni Evangelista - document contains links to full text contributions

Shore protection manual: Volume I and II

Design manual for coastal structures. Note that this manual is replaced by the Coastal Engineering Manual. However, this document contains quite some useful information for present day coastal engineers

Shock Pressures Caused by Waves Breaking against Coastal Structures

Shock pressures of high intensity and short duration may occur during breaking of waves on coastal structures, slamming of ships, landing of seaplanes, and water entry of naval projectiles with flat nose. The phenomenon of shock pressures resulting from the impact between a solid and a liquid can better be described as a water hammer phenomenon...