Swaying piles during installation with seabed templates: Modelling dynamic behavior and a solution

Pre-piling templates are often used in the offshore industry to ensure the vertical installation of foundation piles for jacket structures. Boskalis is currently preparing a project that uses these templates in the Taiwan Strait, which is a region known for its relatively soft soils and seismic activity. Consequently, the piles are very long in...

Reduced complexity modeling of shoreline response behind offshore breakwaters

Prediction of the shoreline response behind offshore breakwaters is essential for coastal protection projects. Due to the complexity of the processes behind the breakwaters (e.g., wave diffraction, currents, longshore transport), detailed modelling needs high computational efforts. Therefore, simplifying the process effect in a simpler...

Non-Hydrostatic Wave modeling in Partly Sheltered Harbor Basins

The determination of wave conditions in partly sheltered areas is a challenging task for coastal engineers. Knowledge about these conditions is important for the design of coastal structures, the planning and operation of ports. Numerical models play an important role in the assessment of these conditions. Various types of models have been...

Traffic induced vibrations in floating thoroughfares

Feasibility study on a floating thoroughfare that is submitted to the dynamic loading of vehicles

Free-surface wave interaction with a thick flexible dock or very large floating platform

Computational modelling of waves in harbours using ray methods

This thesis is concerned with the development of a new computational model for the prediction of wind-generated waves in harbours using a new type of ray tracing technique. The thesis includes a background to the study, an exposition of the theory of the new ray tracing technique, a description of the computational techniques adopted, a new...

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