Improving Stone Placement Specifications
Thorough preparation of stone placement specifications can go a long way toward keeping projects on track. But developing well-prepared placement specifications is not easy. It requires...
Stability of Rock Armour Under Random Wave Attack: Performance of Non-Standard Rock Shapes and Gradings
Quarried rock is frequently used to protect coastal and shoreline structures against wave attack. Armour rock specifications generally exclude rock that is rounded or tabular, and gradings...
The Assessment of Armourstone for Shoreline Protection
To protect shorelines from erosion, Ontario Hydro is using armourstone at various Generating Stations along the perimeter of the Great Lakes. Armourstone is carefully evaluated prior to...
Service Records of Chicago District Breakwater Stone and How These Relate to Test Results
Breakwater stone production is limited to areas with geologic outcrops capable of producing large rocks. The most reliable breakwater stone is that which exhibits the highest degree of...
An Example of Rubble Mound Construction Procedures
The Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, is in an exposed coastal zone that is now suffering from major problems with both the availability of suitable large rubble armour and its durability...
Quartzite?A Hard Rock Approach to Rubble Mounds
The quality of stone in rubble mound structures has always been a concern but seems to be more so the past few years. Breakwaters built in the 1920's using granite armour...
Pricing Armor Rock for Rubble Mound Breakwaters
The pricing of armor rock by breakwater contractors is an inexact exercise. Each breakwater project is so site specific that standard costing methods are difficult to apply. The wide range...
Quarry Techniques for Dimensional Breakwater Stone
On the Texas Gulf Coast, there has evolved a unique design for breakwater and jetty structures. The Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the designer of these structures,...
Quarry Inspection: A Geological Perspective
The need to use durable rock in building projects is becoming more critical as the costs of labor and materials rise. The Steering Committee of the 1991 Quarried Rock For Rubble Mound...
Recent Experience With Armor Stone Cracking in the Buffalo District
Accelerated deterioration of large armor stone on the Cleveland East Breakwater, Cleveland, Ohio has resulted in the need for more intensive monitoring of the entire armor stone production...
The 1984 Major Rehab of the Muskegon Harbor, MI South Breakwater: An Extreme Example of Misguided Design of a Stone Structure
It can be inferred from the Shore Protection Manual that the stability of any coastal structure is increased in proportion to the weights of the armorstones. The south breakwater at Muskegon...
The Design and Construction of Shuikou Project RCC Diversion Wall
Shuikou Hydroelectric Project, currently under construction on the Minjiang River in the People's Republic of China is a concrete gravity dam having a maximum height of 101...
Design of Pena Colorada Tailings Retention Dam
This paper discusses the details involved in the design of a 66 meter high RCC dam to be used to create storage for slurry from an iron ore mining operation located near Manzanillo, Mexico....
Thermal Analysis for RCC?A Practical Approach
Roller compacted concrete (RCC) structures, by nature of the construction method, tend to be monolithic structures or structures with minimal contraction jointing. Recurring questions...
Durability of Stone for Rubble Mound Breakwaters
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Coastal Engineering?The Past!, The Present!, The Future?
The author discusses past and present practices of coastal engineering, and speculates on the diredctions that the profession will take in the future. Also discussed is the question of...
Numerical Beach Profile Modelling for Beachfill Projects
The use of beachfill in addressing coastal erosion problems is becoming increasingly popular. It is often more attractive than the conventional structural approaches for economic, aesthetic...
Coastal Geomorphology and Sand Budgets Applied to Beach Nourishment
It is commonly assumed beach nourishment projects are more successful if applied over long distances of shoreline. Short projects tend to unravel at the ends as the bulge formed by the...
Experience with Beach Fill Equilibration and Recommended Design Guidelines
Well documented engineering procedures suitable for determining design berm dimensions subsequent to profile equilibration appear to be lacking. Failure to properly account for cross-shore...
Hampton, New Hampshire: Beach Nourishment Project
An ongoing program of beach nourishment at Hampton Beach, Hampton, New Hampshire is a success and has resulted in long term use of a recreational facility at one of the most popular resorts...
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