An advanced design project on ‘Port Engineering and Maritime Works’ in teaching future engineers

This paper describes a unique design project devised to teach and apply technical skills in port design, but also in the practical cooperation between students in a realistic design project. The 4-week long project now involves students of up to 19 nationalities from 7-10 universities, and has been based each year on real design projects....

A database of major breakwaters around the world

This paper introduces a co-operative project between HR Wallingford UK (HRW) and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, (TUD) to develop, populate, and then to apply a database on all major breakwaters around the world. It builds on, and revives, similar initiatives that originate in the late 1970s. The paper describes the objectives in...

EurOtop, European Overtopping Manual - Wave overtopping of sea defences and related structures: Assessment manual

The manual has been intended to assist engineers who are already aware of the general principles and methods of coastal engineering. The manual uses methods and data from research studies around Europe and overseas so readers are expected to be familiar with wave and response parameters and the use of empirical equations for prediction. Users...

Failure Mechanisms for Flood Defence Assets

This report provides an analysis of flood defence asset failure modes, structured acccording to asset and loading type. Failure mode information for each asset is presented in a common format and structured for use within reliability analysis models. The intention is that this document forms a central store of agreed failure mechanisms for flood...

Report on hazard analysis

Prediction of wave overtopping discharges for seawalls / breakwaters have improved significantly over the last 25 years, but processes associated with overtopping hazards to people on or close behind seawalls are not yet well understood. Despite research advances in recent years, there remain important gaps in knowledge and disagreements over...

Final report on laboratory measurements Samphire Hoe

Following this introductory section, Chapter 2 discusses the Samphire Hoe field measurements and results, Chapter 3 the design and operation of the laboratory measurements and the results are described in Chapter 4. Finally in Chapter 5 the data are compared and the principal conclusions are given.

Final report on laboratory measurements Samphire Hoe

Following this introductory section, Chapter 2 discusses the Samphire Hoe field measurements and results, Chapter 3 the design and operation of the laboratory measurements and the results are described in Chapter 4. Finally in Chapter 5 the data are compared and the principal conclusions are given.

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...

Proverbs: Probabilistic design tools for vertical breakwaters

Final report and appendices of the European project Proverbs on tools for the design of vertical breakwaters (caisson type breakwaters) and similar hydraulic structures in the coastal zone. It includes the loads (waves) as well as the strength of the structure (geotechnial aspects, structural aspects)

Reservoir dams: Wave conditions, wave overtopping and slab protection

This report describes research to simplify and consolidate the prediction of wave action in reservoirs; to calculate wave induced discharges on embankments; and to extend work on blockwork and slabbing protection for dam faces presented by Herbert et.al (1995) in the companion report SR 345. The report should be used by engineers involved in the...

MAST G6-S Coastal structures: Proceedings of the final overall workshop

These proceedings describes the progress and results of the MAST I research project "G6-S Coastal Structures', which has addressed the techniques available for the analysis and design of coastal and harbour structures such as sea walls, revetments, and breakwaters. They sumrnarise the information collected and developments completed under the...

Rock Armouring to unconventional breakwaters: The design implications for rock durability

This paper identifies the need for quantitative durability testing of rock for use on dynamically stable rock armoured slopes. The derivation and use of a suite of engineering tests for rock quality is considered, and the limitations of Simple accept/reject criteria discussed. Recent developments in techniques for the quantification of armour...

The influence of armourstone shape and rounding on the stability of breakwater armour layers

This is the second of two reports relating to a collaborative prograrmne of random wave flume tests to quantify the effect of rock shape on stability. The first report, SR 150, by Hydraulics Research, Wallingford, gives a summary of recent advances in design methods for rock armoured coastal structures and presents a detailed description of the...