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Monden, M. (author)Due to growing human activity in coastal zones, there is an increasing stress on salt marshes all over the world. These intertidal wetlands were often seen as coastal ‘wasteland’ and large areas were reclaimed for urban development and agriculture. In Puget Sound, a system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in the northwest of the...master thesis 2010
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Wijdenes, T. (author)Door de klimaatveranderingen voorziet de Deltacommissie 2008 problemen voor het Rijnmond gebied. De Maeslantkering en andere stormvloedkeringen zullen vaker moeten sluiten. Ook zullen de rivierafvoeren vaker extreme waardes aannemen. De kans dat een stormvloed samenvalt met een extreem hoge rivierafvoer neemt daarom toe. In het geval van een...master thesis 2010
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De Boer, T.M. (author)From December 2004 onwards every seagoing vessel over 300 Gross Tonnage (GT) is obliged to be equiped with an Automatic Identification System (AIS). Vessels equipped with this system, send out a message every few seconds, containing their position, speed, course, identification number, etc. This makes it possible to perform a statistical...master thesis 2010
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Van der Hoog, C. (author)De provincie Zuid-Holland wil de bereikbaarheid van de regio waarborgen en daarom het goederenvervoer over water stimuleren. Dit afstudeeronderzoek bevat een netwerkanalyse om de knelpunten bloot te leggen. Het aanbod van de infrastructuur heeft beperkingen. Vernauwingen, krappe bruggen, scherpe bochten en spitsuursluitingen zorgen er voor dat...master thesis 2010
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Haddaden, N.H.M. (author)This thesis reviews Arctic development, and industrial responses to changing climate-driven, geospatial, and economic environments. First, the optimization of trans-arctic navigation was addressed in light of the global warming impact on Arctic sea ice. In this regard, a central consideration was given to the Northern Sea Route (NSR), such that...master thesis 2010
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Wesson, M.A. (author)Real coastal waves measured at 4 different locations in the world were analyzed in detail. Long travelled swell measured in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, wind swell from the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, short period wind waves from the Ebro Delta in Mediterranean coast of Spain, and waves measured during the passing of Hurricane Wilma near...master thesis 2010
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Hoss, F. (author)Multilayered Safety (MLS) is seen as the next step in Dutch flood risk management. In the last decades the idea that only flood defenses can prevent floods gave way to the realization prevention can also be implemented along other lines, e.g. giving the rivers more space. The next thought was that next to preventing floods it should be possible...master thesis 2010
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Pintado Patino, J.C. (author)Found on the NW Mediterranean, the Catalan coast is not only subjected to morphological changes driven by physical natural processes but also by significant changes in local dynamics that result from the numerous coastal structures that are found on its realm. The armoring of coastal stretches is a common selected option for protecting valuable...master thesis 2010
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Moalemi, M. (author)Landslide generated Tsunamis are classified as a type of impulse waves. Several parameters including the geometry of the reservoir affect the behavior of impulse waves. The effects of geometry on impulse wave parameters are not yet fully understood. In order to investigate the effects of geometry on landslide generated impulse waves a total of...master thesis 2010
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Grotegoed, D. (author)In this thesis, an investigation is described to the measured horizontal displacements of a quay wall in the Port of Rotterdam. This quay wall was built in 2003 to replace an existing jetty. A combined tubular wall was installed and some of the concrete jetty piles were reused as foundation piles for the relieving platform. Anchorage for the...master thesis 2010
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Wierda, C.H. (author)In order to build structures in the hyper saline environment of the Dead Sea it might be beneficial to use salt as a construction material. The Dead Sea is a tectonically active area with a subsoil consisting of at least eight meters of salt. It is a challenge to construct in this kind of environment, especially since no design criteria exist...master thesis 2010
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Ramachandran, K. (author)Process-based morphological models are widely recognised as a valuable tool for predicting coastal and estuarine morphological developments. However, long-term morphodynamic models are still considered to be in the process of development. Considerable uncertainty is therefore anticipated when these models are being applied in long-term estuarine...master thesis 2010
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Jacobs, R.P.M. (author)The nearshore zone is an active zone that can be quite inhospitable to humans due to violent wave breaking and strong rip currents. Rip currents are shore normal jet-like currents that typically extend from near the shoreline out past the line of breaking waves. Observations have concluded that a rip current system generally consists of 4 parts....master thesis 2010
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Coquet, M.A.J.P. (author)During the winter 2009, beach and dune nourishments have been executed at Vlugtenburg (Holland coast) in order to reinforce the coastal defense. Natural processes such as wind and waves are expected to take care of effective and efficient redistribution of the sand throughout the system. The present study is part of the sub-project Monitoring...master thesis 2010
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Heuts, R.A.R. (author)Along the northern coast of Morocco order has been given for the construction of a large transshipment port in the Mediterranean Sea, at a designated project location around the city of Nador. On this green-field coastal stretch a new transhipment port will have to be developed for various types of cargo. Throughputs of the terminals will have...master thesis 2010
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Geerlings, J.C.S. (author)Currently there are 20,000 to 40,000 yachts in Kuwait. The majority of these yachts is stored on land because the number of berths in Kuwait is not sufficient to accommodate them all. Besides yachts, there are approximately 1,000 fishing vessels in Kuwait. The facilities for fishermen are not of sufficient quality. To overcome these problems,...master thesis 2010
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Van der Giessen, H.J. (author)There is a growing cruise market. To accommodate the growth of cruise shipping in North-West Europe, the developers Consortium ‘Cruiseport The Hague’ wants to construct an outer harbour at Scheveningen; to this day, the harbour of Scheveningen is not able to receive today’s large cruise ships. Obviously, a cruise mooring facility has to be...master thesis 2010
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Kaspers, E.J. (author)Feasibility study on a floating thoroughfare that is submitted to the dynamic loading of vehiclesmaster thesis 2010
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Van den Heuvel, S. (author)The area of New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. A large part of the city got flooded due to bad design, construction and maintenance of the levee system. In order to increase the level of protection of the city, the levees are heightened and strengthened in the framework of the Hurricane and Storm Damage and Risk Reduction...master thesis 2010
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Broersen, W.A. (author)Introduction Dong Lam Cement Factory is developing a new clinker plant in Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam. The clinker has to be exported towards Ho Chi Minh City, where it is grinded into cement and used for the construction industry. For the clinker production coal is needed and has to be imported. To make the in- and export possible a new...master thesis 2010