Physical Evaluation Of The Hydrodynamic Stability Of An Eco-engineered Armouring Unit

ECOncrete®‘s Coastalock is an ecologically designed armour unit, providing an alternative and/or a complement to traditional armour layers with ecologically enhanced armouring that provides shoreline stabilization, while also creating well-defined local ecosystems that mimic natural rock pools. The 2D physical model tests performed at TU Delft...

Building with Nature as a cross-disciplinary approach: The role of hybrid contributions

The incentive for this publication was to expand the realm of enquiry around the topic of Building with Nature (BwN), for two main reasons. First to gain an interdisciplinary, and therefore deeper, understanding of BwN as an object of study. Secondly, but no less important, is an understanding of how different forms of knowledge contribute to...

Editorial: Building with Nature perspectives

This publication offers an overview of the latest cross-disciplinary developments in the field of Building with Nature (BwN) for the protection of coastal regions. The key philosophy of BwN is the employment of natural processes to serve societal goals, such as flood safety. The starting point is a systems-based approach, making interventions...

Maintaining Tropical Beaches with Seagrass and Algae: A Promising Alternative to Engineering Solutions

Tropical beaches provide coastal flood protection, income from tourism, and habitat for flagship species. They urgently need protection from erosion, which is being exacerbated by changing climate and coastal development. Traditional coastal engineering solutions are expensive, provide unstable temporary solutions, and often disrupt natural...

Structural evaluation of multifunctional flood defenses using generic element types

A lack of appropriate guidelines for the design and assessment hampers the development of multifunctional flood defenses like parking garages in quays and houses in dikes. The aim of the present paper, therefore, is to gain insight in the structural performance of multifunctional flood defenses and to provide a tool to evaluate design...

Coastal Engineering. Volume I

Natural system, coastal dynamics, climatology, oceanography, morphology. Coastal formations, Coast and culture, The Netherlands.

Coastal Engineering

Description of coastal engineering, with focus on lowland, deltaic coasts (the Netherlands), description of estuaries, coastal protection works.

Coasts, estuaries and tidal hydraulics

Description of coastal engineering, with focus on lowland, deltaic coasts (the Netherlands), description of estuaries, coastal protection works