Guidelines for protecting berthing structures from scour caused by ships.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Navigation Association, author, issuing body.

Series:

PIANC report ; Number 180.

PIANC Report ; Number 180

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scour (Hydraulic engineering).

Mooring of ships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages).

Place of Publication:

Brussels, Belgium : PIANC, 2015.

Summary:

The aim of the report is to provide practical guidelines and detailed background information about vessel propulsion in order to allow the designer to make a proper design of a quay wall structure and the bed in front of it. This design can be based on the philosophy to allow scour or on the design philosophy to protect the quay wall against erosion by using a rip rap protection or mattresses. The design guidelines as proposed in this document consist of a framework to determine the efflux velocity from propulsors, the velocity distribution in the jet and the velocity at the bottom. Based on these loads a coherent design philosophy is presented for a riprap protection based on standard guidelines such as BAW, EAU and the Rock Manual as well as for mattresses for which such coherent guidelines were lacking at present but are developing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on: online resource; title from cover (Knovel, viewed Mar. 29, 2017).

ISBN:

1-5231-0347-7