Port designer's handbook : recommendations and guidelines

This handbook reflects the lastest progress and developments in navigation safety, port planning and site selection, layout of container, oil and gas terminals, cargo handling, berth design and construction, fender and mooring principles.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Thoresen, Carl A.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Thomas Telford, 2003.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781680150346
1680150340
9780727738363
0727738364
0727732285
9780727732286
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 549 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Port planning
  • Environmental forces
  • Channel and harbour basins
  • Berthing requirements
  • Impact from ships
  • Design considerations
  • Safety consideration
  • Types of berth structures
  • Gravity-wall structures
  • Sheet pile wall structures
  • Open berth structures
  • Berth details
  • Container terminals
  • Fenders
  • Erosion protection
  • Steel corrosion
  • Underwater concreting
  • Concrete deterioration
  • Concrete repair
  • Ship dimensions
  • Definitions
  • Conversion factors.