Coastal engineering
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Wikiversity Department of Marine Engineering
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The course will deal with basic Coastal Engineering concepts such as water waves, their propagation and transformation, statistical representation of the sea state, tides and currents, sediment transport, coastal processes and beach dynamics, coastal structures, wave-structure interaction, environmental issues near coastal zones.
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To help the reader to appreciate Coastal Engineering methods with a firm understanding of the underlying theoretical principles.
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- Lesson 1: Water Wave Theories
- Lesson 2: Wave Transformation
- Lesson 3: Wave Pressure and Forces
- Lesson 4: Wave-Structure Interaction
- Lesson 5: Currents
- Lesson 6: Wave-Current Interaction
- Lesson 7: Tides
- Lesson 8: Solitary Waves
- Lesson 9: Tidal Inlets
- Lesson 10: Basin Circulation
- Lesson 11: Rubble-Mound Breakwaters
- Lesson 12: Submerged Breakwaters
- Lesson 13: Groynes
- Lesson 14: Detached Breakwater
- Lesson 15: Sand Nourishment
- Lesson 16: Assessing Coastal Management Techniques
- Lesson 17: Revetment
- Lesson 18: Vertical Breakwaters
- Lesson 19: Wave-Foundation Interaction
- Lesson 20: Sediment Transport
- Lesson 21: Wave Spectral Analysis
- Lesson 22: Construction of Coastal Defenses
- Lesson 23: Storm Surge
- Lesson 24: Tsunami
- Lesson 25: Wave Maker Theories
- Lesson 26: Physical Modeling
- Lesson 27: Numerical Modeling
- Lesson 28: EIA for Coastal Engineering Projects
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- Plan out a Breakwater using the proper materials
- Breakwaters are often build using 1/6T rocks and cabbled with No. 3 (smaller size) (See State Stds. Sect. 72)
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[edit] References
Additional helpful readings include:
- Elements of Ocean Engineering; Randall, Robert E., 1997, SNAME New York
- Water Wave Mechanics for Engineers & Scientists; R.G. Dean, 1991, World Scientific Singapore
- Descriptive Physical Oceanography; G.L. Pickard, 1990, Butterworth Heinemann Oxford
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