Harbour Works Analysis and Design
Instructor: Dimas Athanassios
Course code: 5705
Semester: 7ο
e-class: https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/CIV1562/
Course content:

  1. Legal framework of Greek ports.
  2. Port site selection.
  3. Coastal hydraulics: gravity waves, surf zone, wind-generated waves.
  4. Design ship and port layout.
  5. Operation and failure modes of harbour structures.
  6. Rubble-mound breakwaters.
  7. Vertical-wall breakwaters.
  8. Composite breakwaters.
  9. Quay walls.
  10. Cylindrical pylons.
  11. Dredging.
  12. Port environmental management.


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