Items needed:  Laptop and Calculator.  Will use online computational aids during the seminar.
Cost: $500 members / $575 non-members

This participatory webinar discusses common mistakes in design of projects on coastal erosion and sedimentation with the following objectives:

• To provide for a list of significant design mistakes  

• To discuss case studies of damages referring to underlying design mistakes  

• To introduce design tools and practical rules of thumb

• To perform class exercises

Special Features

• Real-life case studies 

• Participation in class exercises

• Several computational aids and design tools

• A collection of technical literature and educational video clips

Outline

• Examples of major damages and failures

• Introduction to coastal hydraulics (waves, currents, tide, etc.)

• Introduction to coastal sediment transport

• Some references and design tools

• “Mistakes”: Sources and types

• Common mistakes related to:

o Theoretical methods (formulas/semi-empirical guides, numerical modeling, physical modeling)

o Field data & fitted curves

o Field measurements

o Design wave height

o Utility of Google Earth images

o Sediment transport (accuracy, capacity vs. actual transport, beginning of motion and suspension, turbidity vs. concentration)

o Longshore sediment transport vs. Cross-shore sediment transport

o Cliff/bluff erosion

o Toe scour (seawall, revetment, breakwater, piers, etc.)

o Natural barrier bars

o Beach nourishment

o Choice of transport formulas in software

o Application of physical modeling

• Five take-away messages