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Seung-Won Suh and Myeong-Hee Lee
The vulnerability to coastal disasters resulting from storm surges and wave overtopping (WOT) during typhoon intrusions is significantly escalating due to rising sea levels. In particular, coastal seawalls constructed along the coast through engineered a...
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Sara Mizar Formentin
Due to the effects of climate change on the sea levels and on the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, many coastal defense structures are expected to be exposed to increased loads with respect to their design conditions in the near future ...
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James A. Pollard, Elizabeth K. Christie, Susan M. Brooks and Tom Spencer
Gravel barriers represent physiographic, hydrographic, sedimentary, and ecological boundaries between inshore and open marine offshore environments, where they provide numerous important functions. The morphosedimentary features of gravel barriers (e.g.,...
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Sebastian Dan, Corrado Altomare, Tomohiro Suzuki, Tim Spiesschaert and Toon Verwaest
Physical model experiments were conducted in a wave tank at Flanders Hydraulics Research, Antwerp, Belgium, to characterize the wave overtopping and impact force on vertical quay walls and sloping sea dike (1:2.5) under very oblique wave attack (angle be...
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Patricia Mares-Nasarre, M. Esther Gómez-Martín and Josep R. Medina
The crest elevation of mound breakwaters is usually designed considering a tolerable mean wave overtopping discharge. However, pedestrian safety, characterized by the overtopping layer thickness (OLT) and the overtopping flow velocity (OFV), is becoming ...
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