Harbour Design: Waves, IG & FIG
Actions to mitigate harbour motions range from site selection or harbour design (large scale), through asset positioning or water /...
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Getting Real: Adaptation Triggers with Coastal Structures
Adaptation triggers for coastal structures tend to be based on theoretical risk, which can obscure the necessity to implement change. Use...
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Intakes & Outfalls - Part I
Intakes & outfalls are two key structures for industrial seawater uses. However, they each require different factors to be assessed....
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Putting it on the Shelf - Dredge Spoil Placement
Selection of spoil disposal sites is often based on relatively short-term evaluation of drivers. When placed on the shelf, longer-term...
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Jetties, Wharves & Pergolas in the Sea
After 15 years of reviewing all sorts of jetty applications, I'm well aware of variety in design practices. These are apparently results...
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Mistakes Were Made...
The body of practice for harbour & port design has been built on a litany of mistakes. Understanding how the long list of issues might...
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One Criterion to Rule Them All
In the early 2000s, there was discussion about movement away from 'safety standard' design in coastal engineering towards reliability...
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Things that make you go Boing
Fenders and buffers provide an important balancing role between risk of damage to #maritime structures, and risk of damage to vessels.
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If it Can Happen, it Probability Will...
Whether 'someone got it wrong', 'things changed' or it 'just happened', conditions sometimes go beyond a facility's coastal design...
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Coastal Structure Design Life
AS4997 has improved use of the concept of design life in general coastal engineering practice. However, there is more to design life than...
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Coastal Structure Design Approaches
This post was prompted by a friend's comment that 'everything ultimately needs to be designed, or at least specified'. However, my years...
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Coastal Engineering Design Criteria
Australian Standards AS4997-2005 provided an important unification of probabilistic-based design. However, there are other factors and...
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Rock Structure Life Cycle
Rock structures do not all have a design life of 30-50 years and an average annual maintenance of 1-2% of capital cost! Armour stability...
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Groynes don't work...?
One of my favourite examples of where we can do better as a coastal engineering community... Representing groynes in a one line coastal...
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