Evolution of Design Method Against Random Waves Statistical Properties and Spectral of Sea Waves Transformation and Deformation of Random Sea Waves Design of Breakwaters Design of Coastal Dikes and Seawalls Probabilistic Design of Harbor Facilities Harbor Tranquility and Vessel Mooring Hydraulic Model Tests with Random Waves Theoretical Description of Random Sea Waves Statistical Theory of Irregular Waves Techniques of Random Wave Analysis 2D Computation of Wave Transformation with Random Breaking and Nearshore Currents Statistical Analysis of Extreme Waves Prediction and Control of Beach Deformation Processes.

Random seas and design of maritime structures

Breaking wave loads at vertical seawalls and breakwaters

EurOtop: Manual on wave overtopping of sea defences and related sturctures : an overtopping manual largely based on European research, but for worlwide application

Investigations on the porous media equations and resistance coefficients for coastal structures

1215 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– © 2019 The Authors. Oikos published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Subject Editor: Jarrett Byrnes Editor-in-Chief: Pedro Peres-Neto Accepted 3 May 2019 128: 1215–1242, 2019 doi: 10.1111/oik.05946 doi: 10.1111/oik.05946 128 1215–1242

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/oik.05946

Towards an urban marine ecology: characterizing the drivers, patterns and processes of marine ecosystems in coastal cities

http://www.vandermeerconsulting.nl/downloads/functional_a/2009_bruce_vandermeer.pdf

Overtopping performance of different armour units for rubble mound breakwaters

Wave overtopping is the critical response of most sea defence structures and one of the more important responses for many coast defences around the UK and other developed shorelines. Sea defences in rural areas are commonly provided by embankment seawalls. Steep or vertical seawalls are more commonly used in urban areas to protect against erosion, flooding and local overtopping hazards, and to protect the base of eroding cliffs in urban or rural areas. Vertically faced breakwaters have been common around many European countries, and caisson-type breakwaters are heavily used in Japan. For simple slopes or embankments, overtopping performance can be predicted by simple monotonic empirical formulae. Overtopping of vertical or slightly battered walls is however rather more complicated, with substantial differences in overtopping volumes and velocities depending on the form of wave interaction at or close to the wall. The present paper draws together results from a number of UK and European research projects o...

https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.1680/maen.2005.158.3.103

Wave overtopping at vertical and steep seawalls

Violent wave overtopping - measurements at large and small scale

Designers of vertical seawalls and breakwaters have often included some form of seaward overhang (recurve / parapet / wave return wall / bullnose) as part of the structure with the design motivation of reducing wave overtopping by deflecting back seaward uprushing water. Despite a lengthy track record in the field and relevance to current design issues, very little generic guidance is available for their incorporation into seawall / breakwater design. This paper reports a study whose aim is the formulation of generic guidance for recurve structure design. Particular attention is given to high freeboard and / or wave breaking conditions under which the recurve / parapet gives very large reductions (recurve k-factor < 0.05). The paper presents tentative guidance in the form of a decision chart. Finally, overtopping and loading results from a case study into a wall of particularly complex geometry are presented and compared with earlier studies. Forces on the vertical wall are found to be highly impulsive in nature and approximately double the magnitude of those expected on a simple wall, with additional forces of a similar magnitude measured on the underside of the parapet.

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Jonathan M. Pearson

Papers

Breaking wave loads at vertical seawalls and breakwaters

Overtopping performance of different armour units for rubble mound breakwaters

Wave overtopping at vertical and steep seawalls

Violent wave overtopping - measurements at large and small scale

Effectiveness of recurve walls in reducing wave overtopping on seawalls and breakwaters