Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

Coastal Engineering

Processes, Theory and Design Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 176mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9781138060432
• ISBN-10: 1138060437
• Artikelnr.: 52398895

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.