Port designer's handbook
'The Port Designer's Handbook', third edition provides practising port and harbour consulting engineers with essential guidance and recommendations for the layout, design and construction of modern harbour and port structures. The third edition is extensively revised and discusses var...
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| Main Author | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Westminster, London :
ICE Publishing,
[2014]
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| Edition | Third edition. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781680154085 1680154087 9780727760043 0727760041 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 587 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
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Table of Contents:
- Port planning
- Environmental forces
- Channel and harbour basins
- Berthing requirements
- Impact from ships
- Design considerations
- Safety considerations
- 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
- Port maintenance
- Ship dimensions
- Definitions
- Conversion factors.