عنوان

Seawall design guidelines

(Number (ISBN

0750610530

(Number (ISBN

9780750610537

Number

b555584

Title Proper

Seawall design guidelines

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

R.S. Thomas and B. Hall.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Butterworth-Heinemann

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1991

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Text of Note

Part 1 Coastal management: monitoring; options for coastal defence; phased works. Part 2 Project planning and environmental aspects: existing coastal information; problem definition; environmental assessment; project planning. Part 3 Data collection, analysis and interpretation: general information on data acquisition; water levels; wind; waves; joint probabilities of waves and water levels; topographic surveys; hydrographic surveys; geotechnical investigations; coastal processes; construction and maintenance; existing structures. Part 4 Sea-wall structure - overall concept and types: design philosophy; plan layout; cross section; the body of the wall; the toe of the wall; the crest of the wall; rehabilitation. Part 5 Design: hydraulic performance; slope stability and structural loads; design of sloping porous walls; design of sloping non-porous walls; design of vertical non-porous sea walls; design of crest; design of toe; design for construction and maintenance; detailing. Part 6 Materials: general considerations; required characteristics of materials; characteristics of materials in use. Part 7 Financial and economic considerations: economic appraisal; failure scenarios; assessment of erosion benefit; assessment of flooding benefits; scheme costs. Appendices: statutory framework in the United Kingdom; physical and numerical models.

Civil engineering, surveying and building

Coastal engineering.

Sea-walls.

R.S. Thomas and B. Hall.

B Hall

R S Thomas

Electronic name

[Book]

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