Coastlines, structures, and breakwaters

proceedings of the international conference organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London, UK, on 19-20 March 1998

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Thomas Telford
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Keynote paper
Six conferences later
A progress report on the achievements made in research and their 1
influence on the design of breakwaters.
Professor H. Ligteringen
Assessing scheme safety
1 A code for dike height design and examination
J.W. van der Meer, P Tbnjes and J.P. de Waal 5
2 Establishing coastal flood risks from single storms and the distribution
of the risk of structural failure
R.J. Maddrell, D.E. Reeve and C.R. Heaton 20
Advances in design methods
3 Influence of core permeability on Accropode armour layer stability
H.F. Burcharth, M. Christensen, T. Jensen and P. Frigaard 34
4 Overtopping of vertical structures: new prediction methods to account
for shallow water conditions
P. Besley, T. Stewart and N.W.H Allsop 46
5 Low reflection walls for harbours: development of new structures and
application in Hong Kong
K.J.McConnell, D.M. Ethelston and N.W.H. Allsop 58
6 Ecological implications of developing coastal structures
A. Jensen, B. Hamer and J. Wickens 70
Structures to retain shorelines
7 Beach fill stabilization with tuned structures: experience in the
southeastern USA and Caribbean
K.R. Bodge 82
8 Examination of a prefabricated submerged breakwater -
preliminary results: Vero Beach, Florida, USA
J.B. Smith, J. Pope and J. Tabar 94
9 Observations of structure induced scour adjacent to submerged
narrow-crested breakwaters
T.O. Herrington and M.S. Bruno 106
10 Happisburgh to Winterton Sea Defences: Stage Two
B.A. Hamer, S.J. Hayman, P.A. Elsdon and C.A. Fleming 119
Evaluating project risks / optimization
11 Probabilistic optimisation of the Ennore Coal Port
J.K. Vrijling, S. Gopalan, J.H. Laboyrie and S.E. Plate 135
12 Risk assessment and new risk management protocol for use in
construction of coastal engineering works
J.D. Simm, G. Heald, I.C. Cruickshank and S.J. Read 148
Experiences in breakwater construction
13 Advances in berm breakwaters
S. Sigurdarson, J. Juhl, P. Sloth, O.B. Smarason and G. Viggosson 161
14 La Collette Reclamation Phase II
J.D. Morgan 173
Repair / reconstruction of breakwaters
15 Recovery of armour layer slopes on "Principe de Asturias"
breakwater in the port of Gij6n, Spain
J.L. Diaz Rato and F.J. Marti Unanue 188
16 Decisions taken for rebuilding a breakwater under construction
after a storm failure
V. Negro-Valdecantos and 0. Varela-Carnero 199
Strategic approaches to coast defence
17 Development and implementation of a coastal defence strategy for
Reculver, North Kent
S.M. MCFarland and E.R. Edwards 211
18 Dinas Dinlle coastal works
A.J. Williams and M.F. Davies 223
Application of beach management
19 Monitoring of Cavallino Beach (Venice, Italy)
P. De Girolamo, G. Cecconi, A. Noli, G.P Maretto and P. Contini 237
20 Hunstanton to Heacham beach management
R. Nunn and N. Beech 251
Alternatives in coast protection
21 Retaining beach sand by a distorted ripple mat
I. Irie, S. Takewaka, N. Ono, K. Murakami, H. Sakamoto and 0. Shimada 264
22 Composite breakwaters utilizing geosystems
K.W. Pilarczyk 278
Discusson
Assessing scheme safety: Papers 1 & 2 295
Advances in design methods: Papers 3 & 4 304
Advances in design methods: Papers 5 & 6 309
Structures to retain shorelines: Papers 7 & 8 318
Structures to retain shorelines: Papers 9 & 10 322
Evaluating project risks / optimization: Papers 11 & 12 326
Experiences in breakwater construction: Papers 13 & 14 331
Repair / reconstruction of breakwaters: Papers 15 & 16 335
Strategic approaches to coast defence: Papers 17 & 18 337
Application of beach management: Papers 19 & 20 341
Alternatives in coast protection: Papers 21 & 22 341
Closing remarks
Kevin R. Bodge 345.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.

Published in
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Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
627/.58
Library of Congress
TC333 .C637 1998, TC333.C637 1998

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349 p. :
Number of pages
349

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OL6855956M
ISBN 10
0727726684
LCCN
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