Beach and dune reinforcement with geotextile encapsulated-sand systems. The Portuguese experience

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Luciana das Neves (Author) FEUP; Maria de Lurdes Lopes (Author) FEUP; Fernando Veloso Gomes (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015

Pages: 1-8

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Hydraulic engineering

Associated Projects

GeoProtec - Novas tecnologias de proteção costeira incorporando sistemas de confinamento de areias em material geossintético

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00J-Z2K

DOI: 10.1142/9789814689977_0174

Abstract (EN): Geotextile encapsulated-sand systems can provide efficient protection in eroding shorelines of invaluable landscape, and low to medium risk management. Over the last decade in Portugal, due to the perception that hard coastal interventions have functional limitations and generate negative impacts, new approaches are receiving increased attention from both, government agencies and stakeholders. The Portuguese experience with geosystems are summarised in the paper, along with the results from an ongoing RTD project that aims to develop a new technology of coastal protection incorporating geotextile encapsulated-sand systems, more suitable for applications under severe hydrodynamic conditions, notably similar to those occurring along the northwest Portuguese Atlantic coast.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8