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By J William Kamphuis

This publication relies at the author's 34 years of expertise as a teacher/researcher of coastal engineering and administration and on fresh reflections on newly suitable concerns, reminiscent of outcomes of failure, affects of emerging sea degrees, getting older infrastructure, genuine property improvement, and modern selection making, layout and education.

This textbook for undergraduate scholars, postgraduate scholars and practising engineers covers waves, buildings, sediment circulation, coastal administration, and modern coastal layout and choice making, proposing either simple rules and engineering options. It discusses the conventional equipment of research and synthesis (design), but in addition modern layout bearing in mind environmental affects, outcomes of failure, and present matters corresponding to worldwide warming, getting older infrastructure, operating with stakeholder teams, regulators, etc.

This moment variation expands drastically at the subject matters of failure and resilience that surfaced due to fresh mess ups from typhoon surges and tsunamis. It updates the dialogue of layout and determination making within the twenty first century, with many new examples presented.

Contents:

  • Water Waves
  • Short-Term Wave Analysis
  • Long-Term Wave Analysis
  • Wave Generation
  • Wave Transformation and Breaking
  • Tides and Water Levels
  • Rare Extraneous Events
  • Design of Structures
  • Breakwaters
  • Introduction to Coastal Management
  • Coastal Sediment Transport
  • Basic Shore Processes
  • Coastal Design
  • One-Dimensional Modeling of Coastal Morphology
  • Shore Protection
  • Contemporary Concepts
  • Problems

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate scholars, researchers and teachers in coastal engineering and management.

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