Assessment of future stability of breakwaters under climate change

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-39

  Takagi, Hiroshi ^a   Kashihara, Hidehiro ^b   Esteban, Miguel ^c   Shibayama, Tomoya ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Niikawa Public Works Center   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breakwater; climate change; expected sliding distance; probabilistic design method; SWAN model

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; CLIMATE MODELS; DESIGN; HURRICANES; SEA LEVEL; WATER WAVES; WIND;

BREAKWATER STABILITY; PROBABILISTIC DESIGN; SEA TEMPERATURE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SLIDING DISTANCES; SWAN MODEL; TYPHOON INTENSITIES; WAVE HEIGHTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79959573993     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563411002264     Document Type: Article

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