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Bed, Bank and Shoreline Protection – Introduction

Course subject(s) Introduction

1. Introduction

The course Bed, Bank and Shoreline Protection starts with an introduction in which the course and the learning objectives are discussed.

Introduction

The course is about protection of the boundary between land and water. The learning objectives are

  • learn to design a structure for the protection against undesired erosion
  • design structures based on understanding of the processes

The lecturer, ir. H.J. Verhagen, explains whether a boundary between land and water should be protected. Several examples of protections are given and many different topics about the design process, flows, moving objects, cause and effect, mechanisms, load and strength etc. are briefly discussed.

Lecture Slides & Readings Introduction

In this lecture chapter one and the first part of chapter 2 are discussed. By clicking on the link above you can download the lecture slides.

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