Coastal erosion. Geometric detached breakwaters indicators for preventing the shoreline erosion. Fringe session

Negro Valdecantos, Vicente and Diez Gonzalez, Jose Javier and Bricio Garberí, Laura and López Gutiérrez, José Santos (2009). Coastal erosion. Geometric detached breakwaters indicators for preventing the shoreline erosion. Fringe session. In: "Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009", 16/09/2009 - 18/09/2009, Edimburgo, Escocia.

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Title: Coastal erosion. Geometric detached breakwaters indicators for preventing the shoreline erosion. Fringe session
Author/s:
  • Negro Valdecantos, Vicente
  • Diez Gonzalez, Jose Javier
  • Bricio Garberí, Laura
  • López Gutiérrez, José Santos
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009
Event Dates: 16/09/2009 - 18/09/2009
Event Location: Edimburgo, Escocia
Title of Book: Proceedings of the Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009
Date: 2009
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Coastal erosion, detached breakwater, shoreline, salient, tombolo
Faculty: E.T.S.I. Caminos, Canales y Puertos (UPM)
Department: Ingeniería Civil: Ordenación del Territorio, Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

The coastline today is undoubtedly in a precarious situation. Many beaches are suffering from erosion and the obvious environmental and landscape degradation of many coastal stretches are problems. Coastal Engineers are spending time in solving. With this in mind, different protection methods have been used over time, most based on the artificial nourishment of beaches and on building structures such as groynes and detached breakwaters. Detached breakwaters are artificial structures, generally parallel to the coastline, inspired on the working of natural formations, protecting a certain stretch from wave action and being able to create accretion areas. This is why these structures have been in general use with different results, since the 1970s, in countries such as Japan, the USA, Israel, Spain, Italy and Australia. The study undertaken for this research centres precisely on this type of structure, with the purpose of providing an overall view of the state-of-the-art in this field and a conceptual model for preventing the coastal erosion. In addition, the effects of a detached breakwater on the shoreline for a series of prototypes on the Spanish coastline and whether the empirical relations given by different researchers for classifying the shoreline’s type of response were fulfilled for them all or not, were researched. There sult of this work showed how sensitive the shore’s response is in relation to the non-dimensional B/X monomial (where B is the length of the detached breakwater and X its distance to the initial coastline) and the range of figures proposed for classifying the shore’s response based on that monomial.

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Item ID: 5402
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/5402/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:5402
Official URL: http://www.ice-breakwaters.com/
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 10 Dec 2010 13:03
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2016 14:13
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