Coastlines, structures, and breakwaters
Subtitle: proceedings of the international conference organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London, UK, on 19-20 March 1998
By: edited by N.W.H. Allsop.
Contributors: Allsop, N. W. H.; Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Breakwaters -- Design and construction -- Congresses.; Coastal engineering -- Congresses.; Shore protection -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Keynote paper; title: Six conferences later; title: A progress report on the achievements made in research and their 1; title: influence on the design of breakwaters.; title: Professor H. Ligteringen; title: Assessing scheme safety; title: 1 A code for dike height design and examination; title: J.W. van der Meer, P Tbnjes and J.P. de Waal 5; title: 2 Establishing coastal flood risks from single storms and the distribution; title: of the risk of structural failure; title: R.J. Maddrell, D.E. Reeve and C.R. Heaton 20; title: Advances in design methods; title: 3 Influence of core permeability on Accropode armour layer stability; title: H.F. Burcharth, M. Christensen, T. Jensen and P. Frigaard 34; title: 4 Overtopping of vertical structures: new prediction methods to account; title: for shallow water conditions; title: P. Besley, T. Stewart and N.W.H Allsop 46; title: 5 Low reflection walls for harbours: development of new structures and; title: application in Hong Kong; title: K.J.McConnell, D.M. Ethelston and N.W.H. Allsop 58; title: 6 Ecological implications of developing coastal structures; title: A. Jensen, B. Hamer and J. Wickens 70; title: Structures to retain shorelines; title: 7 Beach fill stabilization with tuned structures: experience in the; title: southeastern USA and Caribbean; title: K.R. Bodge 82; title: 8 Examination of a prefabricated submerged breakwater -; title: preliminary results: Vero Beach, Florida, USA; title: J.B. Smith, J. Pope and J. Tabar 94; title: 9 Observations of structure induced scour adjacent to submerged; title: narrow-crested breakwaters; title: T.O. Herrington and M.S. Bruno 106; title: 10 Happisburgh to Winterton Sea Defences: Stage Two; title: B.A. Hamer, S.J. Hayman, P.A. Elsdon and C.A. Fleming 119; title: Evaluating project risks / optimization; title: 11 Probabilistic optimisation of the Ennore Coal Port; title: J.K. Vrijling, S. Gopalan, J.H. Laboyrie and S.E. Plate 135; title: 12 Risk assessment and new risk management protocol for use in; title: construction of coastal engineering works; title: J.D. Simm, G. Heald, I.C. Cruickshank and S.J. Read 148; title: Experiences in breakwater construction; title: 13 Advances in berm breakwaters; title: S. Sigurdarson, J. Juhl, P. Sloth, O.B. Smarason and G. Viggosson 161; title: 14 La Collette Reclamation Phase II; title: J.D. Morgan 173; title: Repair / reconstruction of breakwaters; title: 15 Recovery of armour layer slopes on "Principe de Asturias"; title: breakwater in the port of Gij6n, Spain; title: J.L. Diaz Rato and F.J. Marti Unanue 188; title: 16 Decisions taken for rebuilding a breakwater under construction; title: after a storm failure; title: V. Negro-Valdecantos and 0. Varela-Carnero 199; title: Strategic approaches to coast defence; title: 17 Development and implementation of a coastal defence strategy for; title: Reculver, North Kent; title: S.M. MCFarland and E.R. Edwards 211; title: 18 Dinas Dinlle coastal works; title: A.J. Williams and M.F. Davies 223; title: Application of beach management; title: 19 Monitoring of Cavallino Beach (Venice, Italy); title: P. De Girolamo, G. Cecconi, A. Noli, G.P Maretto and P. Contini 237; title: 20 Hunstanton to Heacham beach management; title: R. Nunn and N. Beech 251; title: Alternatives in coast protection; title: 21 Retaining beach sand by a distorted ripple mat; title: I. Irie, S. Takewaka, N. Ono, K. Murakami, H. Sakamoto and 0. Shimada 264; title: 22 Composite breakwaters utilizing geosystems; title: K.W. Pilarczyk 278; title: Discusson; title: Assessing scheme safety: Papers 1 & 2 295; title: Advances in design methods: Papers 3 & 4 304; title: Advances in design methods: Papers 5 & 6 309; title: Structures to retain shorelines: Papers 7 & 8 318; title: Structures to retain shorelines: Papers 9 & 10 322; title: Evaluating project risks / optimization: Papers 11 & 12 326; title: Experiences in breakwater construction: Papers 13 & 14 331; title: Repair / reconstruction of breakwaters: Papers 15 & 16 335; title: Strategic approaches to coast defence: Papers 17 & 18 337; title: Application of beach management: Papers 19 & 20 341; title: Alternatives in coast protection: Papers 21 & 22 341; title: Closing remarks; title: Kevin R. Bodge 345.