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Breakwaters, Coastal Structures and Coastlines

  • Author: ICE
  • Hardbound ISBN: 978-0-7277-3042-8
  • Publication Date: February 2003
  • Format: Hardbound

Book Summary

This volume presents the proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers' seventh internaional conference on coastlines, structures and breakwaters. The papers contained in the volume cover wide ranging advances in international research and experience in the field of coastal and harbour engineering.

Table of Contents

The forty-one papers, written by leading international scientists and engineers, are presented under the headings:

  • Schemes
  • Breakwater armouring
  • Optimizing solutions
  • Sediment processes and dredging
  • Assessment of shoreline structures
  • Overtopping
  • Soft shorelines
  • Effects of design on construction
  • Performance and new techniques
  • Breakwater design and analysis
  • Planning for the future


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