Maritime Works

Code:

M.EC019

Acronym:

OM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Hydraulics

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M.EC	20	Syllabus	2	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Coastal and Port Engineering has strategic importance for Portugal, which has a coastline with more than 1800 km in length exposed to the Atlantic Ocean and, therefore, to important actions of the maritime environment (waves, wind, tides and currents), which are expected to increase in the future due to the effects of climate change. Consequently, coastal risks will tend to increase, an issue that is especially important given that 75% of the population lives nearby the coast. On the other hand, seaports are fundamental for the transport of goods and important drivers of economic growth, with approximately 75% of the European Union's external trade passing through these infrastructures, which are constantly faced with new challenges, namely the need for modernizing and adjusting their services to the market.

In this scope, the UC of Maritime Works aims to:

• To understand the details of planning port facilities and coastal defence systems and their environmental impacts;
• To design coastal and port structures based on the knowledge of the phenomena associated with the interaction between waves and solid boundaries.

Learning outcomes and competences

• To understand the constraints and the specificities associated with the planning of port facilities and coastal defence systems.


• To know how to design mooring and berthing structures, vertical and rubble mound breakwaters, in accordance to national and international standards and guidelines, with an emphasis on the hydraulic-structural performance, construction aspects and maintenance throughout their useful life.


• To understand the dynamics and specificities of the maritime-port environment, maritime hydrodynamics and coastal hydromorphology and their influence on the design of coastal and port interventions and structures, considering also the context of adaptation to the climate change effects.


• To learn how to characterize the impact of climate variability and climate change on coastal zones.


• Understand the importance of an integrated assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the Coastal Engineering projects.


• To understand the importance of physical modelling and numerical modelling for the simulation of maritime and coastal processes. To learn how to use numerical tools to study these processes.


• Be familiar with the conception, design, execution, monitoring and maintenance of different types of port and coastal structures, based on the knowledge of maritime hydrodynamics and coastal hydromorphology.


• To develop critical sense, autonomy of action and ability to dialogue with other specialities, identify good and bad practices, relate design aspects to construction and maintenance. To design recognizing the potential and limitations of the available tools.


• To know how to apply the main international recommendations and standards for the design of coastal and port structures.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

It will be desirable that students have obtained approval in the Curricular Units of the Scientific Area of Hydraulics, in the Curricular Units of the area of Mathematics and Physics and in the Curricular Units of Structures and Geotechnics. Prior attendance to the course unit of Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics is required.

Program

1. Port infrastructures. Port layout. Intermodal systems. Accessibilities. Ship typologies. Port planning. Port equipment. Specialized terminals.


2. Harbour resonance. Seiches. Geometric shape of the harbour basin. Restrictions. Dredging. Safety aspects.


3. Manuals and standards for the pre-design of coastal and port interventions (e.g., SPM, CEM, Rock Manual, ROM, British Standards, Japanese Standards).


4. Berthing and mooring structures. Conceptual design, design and constructive aspects. Mooring and berthing devices. Hydraulic and structural performance. Mooring layout. Load assessment. Load combinations. Stability verifications. Fender design. Limits for the ship motions and efficiency of (un-) loading operations. Failure modes. Construction phases.


5. Rubble mound breakwaters: hydraulic and structural performance, design and constructive aspects. Design codes and guidelines. Round-head and current cross-section. Sizing of armour layout blocks. Definition and calculation of standard elements of a cross-section: toe berm and superstructure. Construction phases and equipment. Analysis of case studies.


6. Vertical breakwaters: hydraulic and structural performance, design, constructive aspects. Caissons. Standard cross-section. Scour protection. Reflection control. Construction phases. Analysis of case studies.


7. Sedimentary transport and mass balances. Erosions and siltations. Coastal erosion. Causes and mitigation measures. Dynamics of beach cross profiles.


8. Design of coastal defence interventions. Advantages and drawbacks. Detached structures. Revetments. Groynes. Low crest structures. Artificial sand nourishment. Nature-based solutions. Construction phases. Analysis of case studies.


9. Risk reduction of coastal fronts (e.g., floods and overtopping). Mitigation solutions. Overtopping assessment. Application of the neuronal tool NN-Overtopping2.


10. Project tendering process. Assessment of environmental impacts of port and coastal defence works. Analysis of case studies.


11. Physical and numerical modelling applied to coastal protection problems. Similarity laws. Scale and laboratory effects. Types of numerical models. Advantages and limitations.

Mandatory literature

; Bibliografia fornecida aos estudantes em suporte digital (página da Unidade Curricular no SIFEUP) ou em papel
Army Corps of Engineers United States of America; Coastal engineering manual. ISBN: 978-1-60119-026-0
CIRIA, CUR, CETMEF; The Rock Manual. The use of rock in hydraulic engineering (2nd edition), CIRIA, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-86017-683-1 (C683 CIRIA, London, June, 1304p.)
Van der Meer, J.W., Allsop, N.W.H., Bruce, T., De Rouck, J., Kortenhaus, A., Pullen, T., Schüttrumpf, H., Troch, P. and Zanuttigh, B.; Manual on wave overtopping of sea defences and related structures. An overtopping manual largely based on European research, but for worldwide application, 2018 (EurOtop, 2018. Manual on wave overtopping of sea defences and related structures. An overtopping manual largely based on European research, but for worldwide application. Van der Meer, J.W., Allsop, N.W.H., Bruce, T., De Rouck, J., Kortenhaus, A., Pu)
Goda, Y.; Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000. ISBN: 981-02-3256-X (Goda, Y., 2000. Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering, World Scientific, Singapore, Vol.15, 2nd ed. ISBN:981-02-3256-X.)

Complementary Bibliography

EAU; Recommendations of the Committee for Waterfront Structures: Harbours and Waterways, 1996 (Committee for Waterfront Structures, 7th English Edition, Ernst&Sohn, Berlin, 599p)
Kamphuis, J. W.; Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering, World Scientific, 2020. ISBN: 978-981-12-0799-0 (Kamphuis, J. W., 2020. Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. World Scientific, Vol. 48, 3rd Edition. doi: 10.1142/11491, June 2020, p.544, ISBN: 978-981-12-0799-0.)

Comments from the literature

The bibliography is presented for each subject taught.

Bibliography provided to students in digital support (page of the Course Unit at SIFEUP).

Teaching methods and learning activities

The various subjects will be presented in the Lectures using multimedia resources and the whiteboard, supported by standard exercises, practical examples as well as research results. Next, in theoretical-practical classes, the analysis and resolution of selected exercises and the application of the calculation methodologies to real case studies (coastal and port structures) will be performed. It is also worth mentioning the consultation of studies and projects of coastal engineering. All classes have attendance control.

The study visits to ongoing or already completed works complement classroom learning. The laboratory class aims to consolidate the subjects already learned by performing experimental works and include the generation, acquisition and analysis of regular and irregular wave data as well as the evaluation of wave reflection.

Note: the study visits and laboratory classes depend on the conditions and restrictions that may exist in each school year.

Software

NN-Overtopping2

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Maritime engineering > Coastal structures
Technological sciences > Engineering > Maritime engineering
Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Hydraulic engineering
Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Infrastructures engineering

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	75,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	98,00
Frequência das aulas	45,50
Trabalho escrito	24,50
Total:	168,00

Eligibility for exams

Achieving final classification requires compliance with attendance at the course unit. It is considered that students meet the attendance requirements if, having been regularly enrolled, the number of absences of 25% of the classes is not exceeded.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is defined based on a practical assignment (TP) and an evaluation test (PA), which are mandatory. These components have a weight of 25% and 75%, respectively.

The evaluation component, to be carried out without consultation, includes a theoretical part and a practical part (with the support of a form), and has a maximum duration of 180 minutes (evaluation expressed on a 0-to-20 numerical scale, rounded to one decimal place: theory – 50%; practice – 50%).

The subjects to be included in the evaluation component will be defined each year and the students informed in due time.

The final grade, CF, will be calculated based on the following formula:

CF = TPx25% + PAx75%, evaluation expressed on a 0-to-20 numerical scale, rounded to one decimal place.

where,

TP – Grade of the practical assignment,

PA – Grade of the evaluation test to be performed on the day of the normal season exam.

 

NOTE 1: ALL students enrolled on the course unit are classified according to this method.

NOTE 2: The re-sit exam consists of the evaluation test (PA), to be carried out during the examination period, on a day to be defined.

NOTE 3: Special exams embrace the entire subject matter.

NOTE 4: The conditions for conducting the evaluation components may be adjusted in the future according to the restrictions that may arise, for instance related to the pandemic COVID-19.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Experimental work to be carried out in one demonstration laboratory class, as described in the “Teaching Methods” (to be defined each year depending on the work in progress and available conditions and restrictions).

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students with a Special Status are classified according to the method presented in "Calculation formula of final grade ", EXCEPT when they undergo examination in a Special Season. In this case, students are evaluated in a “single evaluation moment”, which consist in an exam covering all the course unit subjects (grade is expressed on a 0-to-20 numerical scale, rounded to the unity: theory – 50%; practice – 50%).

Classification improvement

Students who have already obtained approval in the course unit can perform a CLASSIFICATION IMPROVEMENT, only once, under the following conditions:

(i) by performing an evaluation test in the re-sit examination season of the year they were approved in the Curricular Unit (CU);

(ii) by performing an Exam covering all the course unit subjects, after the re-sit examination season of the year they were approved in the CU.

The Final Grade in the course unit is the highest between the one initially obtained and the one resulting from the classification improvement.

Observations

SPECIAL RULES FOR MOBILITY STUDENTS:
Frequency of graduation course units introductory to the subjects covered by the present curricular unit.

ESTIMATED WORKING TIME OUT OF CLASSES:
4 hours/week.