Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138060432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 512 str.

Dominic Reeve; Andrew Chadwick; Christopher Fleming

Opis

For year 4 undergraduate and MSc students. Covers conceptual and detailed design; wave overtopping; calculation of extreme wave conditions; structural reliability and probabilistic design; tidal analysis and calculation of amplitudes and phases of harmonic constituents from water level time series; harmonic analysis; and climate change.

Spis treści

Introduction. Wave theory. Design wave specification. Coastal water level variations. Coastal transport processes. Coastal morphology: analysis, modelling and prediction. Design, reliability and risk. Field measurements and physical models. Conceptual and detailed design. Appendices: Summary of statistical concepts and terminology; Maximum likelihood estimation; Harmonic analysis results; Normal distribution tables.

O autorze

Dominic Reeve is Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Swansea, UK and a Chartered Mathematician.

Andrew Chadwick is former Professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of the West Indies and Honorary Professor at Plymouth, UK.

Chris Fleming is a former Group Director of Halcrow, UK.