[EN] Armor porosity of mound breakwaters and the armor unit placement method have a considerable influence on the hydraulic behavior of the structure. The armor porosity is a parameter of great importance to the structure, ...

[EN] Firstly, this MSc Thesis presents an introduction about the design of mound breakwaters and analyses the evolution of their main solicitation, waves, from their generation zona until their breakage. In addition, it ...

[ES] Objetivos: El trabajo permite trabajar al alumno los conceptos sobre clima marítimo y el análisis de modos de fallo de un dique en talud. Además, estos conceptos se aplicarán a modo de estudio de soluciones, de modo ...

[EN] Due to the storms and the predictions of the rise in the mean sea water level, the overtopping rates that occur in some structures are inadmissible, as they jeopardize both the structural safety and that of people or ...