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Abstract: The concept of equilibrium plan form and equilibrium profile has been widely used as an engineering tool in order to design beach nourishment projects. The scope of this paper is to further explore this ?equilibrium beach? concept in crenulated bays, as a long-term tool for beach nourishment projects. The proposed methodology is based on González and Medina (2001) and combines the static equilibrium plan and profile for long-term analysis. This methodology includes a modified equilibrium plan form, which is able to define the orientation of the local wave front in the diffracting point, and also to locate the downcoast starting point of the static equilibrium beach from which the parabolic plan form of Hsu and Evans (1989) is valid. This methodology permits the application of any equilibrium profile formulation. An example of the application of this methodology and long-term formulations to the design of the Spanish nourishment project of Poniente Beach (Gijón) is presented. Ten years after its construction, the beach has still got a static equilibrium and remains pretty close to the predicted equilibrium beach in plan and profile.
Authorship: González M., Medina R., Losada M.,
Fuente: Coastal Engineering, 2010, 57( 2), 227-240
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication date: 01/02/2010
No. of pages: 14
Publication type: Article
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.10.009
ISSN: 0378-3839,1872-7379
Spanish project: REN2003-9640/MAR
Publication Url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.10.009
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ERNESTO MAURICIO GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ
RAUL MEDINA SANTAMARIA
LOSADA, MIGUEL
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