LEARNING OUTCOMES

Principles of coastal structures planning and design and shore protection management

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to provide the basic knowledge for a general framework of problems related to:

- Mete-ocean climate analysis for the identification of the environmental characteristics of the project

- Characteristics of nearshore circulation

- Coastal Morphology

- Sediment Transport

- Coastal Morphodynamics

- Coastal Defence Works

TEACHING METHODS

The course will be held mainly through frontal lessons with the help of slides.

There will be some practical lessons with the use of computers for the development of specific algorithms for the quantification of coastal processes

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Introduction to wave dynamics and statistics

Introduction to nearshore circulation

Sediment characteristics, Coastal Morphology, Longshore and Cross-shore profiles

Sediment Transport, Incipient motion, Bed Load Transport, Suspended Load Transport

Coastal Morphodynamics, Longshore profile evolution, Cross-shore profile evolution, Numerical models for coastline evolution

Coastal structures, soft and hard solutions, nourishment, groins, submerged breakwaters, breakwaters, revetments

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• CERC, 1984, Shore Protection Manual, Dept. of Army, U.S. Corps of Engineers
• Costal Engineering Manual (EM 1110-21100), 2006, U.S. Army Corps of Eng.
• Dean R.G. & Darlymple R.A., 1984, Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists
• Goda Y., 2010, Random seas and design of maritime structures, World Scientific
• Kamphuis J.W., 2010, Introduction to coastal engineering and management, World Scientific
• Komar P.D., 1998, Beach Processes and Sedimentation, Prentice Hall