Design of Breakwaters
For whom?
This course is useful for engineers involved in the design of breakwaters and/or the supervision of construction of them. Knowledge of the coastal processes such as wind, waves, tides and tidal currents is necessary.Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 02 March 2020
End: 13 March 2020
Deadline IHE application: 01 February 2020 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 1940
VAT is not included in the course fee
Learning objectives
- Understand the difference between alternative types of breakwaters and governing factors for their selection; Design breakwaters from conceptual to detailed and prepare the layouts and detailed cross-sections.
- Learning objectives Understand the basic principles of physical scale model and know how to design such a model to test the design of Breakwaters
Course content
This course is delivered by world–renowned Professor Jentsje van der Meer. He will share his valuable experience with the participants and teach them state of the art methods to design breakwaters amongst others based on the newly published literature such as “EurTop 2018 edition” and “Design and Construction of Berm Breakwaters”. Participants will receive a softcopy of both books at the beginning of the course.
This course includes a real case assignment, participants will design a breakwater under the supervision of the lecturers and will present and discuss their design on the last day of the course.