Ebook: Port Designers Handbook: Recommendations and Guidelines

Thomas Telford Publishing, 2003, 576 p. — ISBN-10: 0727732285, ISBN-13: 9780727732286.The book provides an evaluation of different designs and construction methods for port and berth structures, and recommendations given by the different international harbour standards and recommendations. Practising harbour and port engineers and students will find the handbook an invaluable source of information.Over the past ten to twenty years there has been considerable improvement and new thinking in the design and construction of port and harbour structures. The purpose of this handbook is not to explain the full scope of port design and construction but to give guidelines and recommendations, and to try to deal with some of the main items and assumptions in the layout, design and construction of modern port structures and the forces and loadings acting on them. The use of concrete for berth structures in a marine environment is also dealt with in detail, as well as the types of deterioration and methods of repair of these structures.Preface and acknowledgements
Port planning
Environmental forces
Channels 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