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Maritime Hydraulic Construction and Hydrology
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide the fundamental knowledge for the proper design and construction criteria of ports and the main port infrastructures, and for an adequate implementation of both external and internal layouts. Moreover, it aims to provide the fundamental requirements for the planning of the port infrastructures and all the elements of the port system both operational and interface with the surrounding territory, understood as a node of a multimodal network of transport of goods and passengers.
The objective of the course is to enable the student to acquire: i) the ability to re-elaborate what has been studied and to apply the acquired knowledge in practice: this also, and above all, in fields other than those in which the knowledge learned is traditionally used (Knowledge, Understanding, Applied Knowledge); ii) the notions necessary to be able to independently deepen what has been learned, both independently and with originality, and through comparison with the teachers and with the other students, in order to use the basic knowledge as a starting "platform" that allows him to reach to further results characterized by an increasingly greater maturity and an increasingly broad autonomy of judgment (Autonomy of Judgment and Ability to Learn); iii) the ability to convey to one's interlocutors, in a clear and complete way, the knowledge acquired at the end of the training course developed within the course (Communication).
Course Prerequisites
Mathematical analysis, Physics
Teaching Methods
· Disciplinary classrooms
· Problem solving
· Project Based Learning
· The scientific method for STEM
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of an oral examination. During the interview, a case study identified by the student will be discussed.
During the oral discussion, the critical skills and methodological rigor achieved by the student will be evaluated, as well as the contributions of originality, with reference to the topics covered by the course.
The oral examination aims to verify the level of knowledge and understanding of the course contents and to evaluate independent judgement, learning ability and communication ability. The discussion of the case study chosen by the student has the aim of understanding the student's ability to re-elaborate what has been studied during the course and to apply the knowledge acquired in practice, in cases of interest different from those developed during the lessons.
The final grade will be awarded according to the following evaluation criteria:
30 cum laude: complete, in-depth and critical knowledge of the topics, excellent language skills, original interpretative ability, full ability to independently apply knowledge to solve the proposed problems, with reference to case studies already covered during the course or new;
28 - 30: complete and in-depth knowledge of the topics, excellent language properties, complete and effective interpretative skills, able to independently apply the knowledge to solve the proposed problems, with reference to case studies already covered during the course or new;
24 - 27: knowledge of the topics with a good degree of command, good language skills, correct and safe interpretative skills, good ability to correctly apply most of the knowledge to solve the proposed problems, with reference to the case studies already treated during the course or on the general analysis of new case studies;
20 - 23: adequate knowledge of the topics but limited mastery of the same, satisfactory language properties, correct interpretative ability, more than sufficient ability to independently apply the knowledge to solve the proposed problems, with reference to the case studies already covered during the course;
18 - 19: basic knowledge of the main topics, basic knowledge of technical language, sufficient interpretative ability, sufficient ability to apply the basic knowledge acquired; Insufficient: does not have an acceptable knowledge of the topics covered during the course.
Texts
• Paolo Boccotti, 1997. “Idraulica Marittima”, Ed. UTET
• Paolo Boccotti, 2000. “Wave Mechanics for Ocean Engineering”, ELSEVIER
• Paolo Boccotti, 2014. “Wave Mechanics and wave loads on Marine Structures”, ELSEVIER
• Giuseppe Matteotti, 2004. “Lineamenti di Costruzioni Marittime”, Ed. SGEditoriali Padova
• Raccomandazioni tecniche emanate dall’Associazione Internazionale AIPCN-PIANC
• European Overtopping Manual - http://www.overtopping-manual.com/manual.htmlalità
Contents
WAVE-CLIMATIC STUDY OF THE SITE (2 CFU)
Geographical characterization of the site, input data (waves, wind, currents, sea levels).
Offshore wave analysis: i) Omidirectional and directional probabilities of significant wave height for the identification of the main and secondary sectors; ii) analysis of extreme events (Equivalent Triangular Storm Storm Model and Power Storm Model). Concept of mean persistence above the threshold associated with the storm event.
Transposition of wave motion. Propagation of significant wave events from offshore to the water depth and location where the structure is supposed to be deployed for its reliable sizing.
Analysis and commentary of case studies.
PORTS, EXTERNAL LAYOUTS, EXTERNAL PORT WORKS (2 CFU)
The Port: definitions and characterization. Classification of ports based on the reference legislation.
Port System: access channel, mouth, evolution basin, project vessel. Sizing port criteria based on the PIANC International Recommendations. Port typologies: location and categories.
Criteria for the location of port defense works (“external port infrastructure layout”).
Types of external defense works: rubble mound breakwater and upright breakwater. Applications of the two different construction types. Rubble mound breakwater: stability and failure criteria. Identification of the different construction elements. Elements of the front-structure and criteria for their sizing. Response of structure under significant events. Construction method of a rubble mound breakwater: analysis of a construction example.
Caisson breakwater in reinforce concrete: vertical seawall works, sizing criteria, classification of loads produced by waves on monolithic vertical seawall structures, PROVERBS project results relating to non-breaking and breaking wave loads on vertical wall works. Calculation schemes for the pressures acting on a vertical wall structure under a wave crest: i) Stokes and Saintflou models; ii) Goda model also in the case of breaking waves. Notes on the results obtained at sea on small-scale models performed at the NOEL laboratory of the Mediterranean University, with reference to the international context of interest.
Considerations on the Design of Cellular Caisson breakwater: Italian and Foreign Standards and Recommendations.
Construction methods of cellular caisson breakwater: prefabrication basins, analysis and commentary on examples of completed works.
Notes on the criteria for selecting the types of external port infrastructures on the basis of criteria for optimizing safety levels and reducing costs as proposed by PIANC technical recommendations.
Actions on both external and internal port infrastructures: loads produced during the mooring phase by ships under the action of wind and currents, criteria for the sizing of bollards and fenders.
INTERNAL LAYOUTS, INTERNAL PORT STRUCTURES, DIFFRACTION IN THE PORT AREA (1 CFU)
Internal port: internal liquid mirrors (basins or docks), berthing and/or mooring works (docks, piers and briccole), port lowerings.
Actions aon both external and internal berthing structures: stresses produced during the mooring phase by ships under the action of wind and currents, criteria for the sizing of bollards and fenders.
Analysis of stresses on gravity platforms with overlapping boulders and stability checks.
Fundamental notions on wave interaction with semi-infinite wall port strutures. Estimation of diffraction coefficients in port environments. Abacus and graphs in the case of pure wind waves and simplified geometries of the location of the piers.
Analysis andcommentary of case studies.
PORT PLANNING (1 CFU)
Analysis of the guidelines for the drafting of Italian Port Regulatory Plans.
Analysis and commentary of some PRPs: case of a Port of international importance and a Port of national importance.
Energy aspects in the port sector. Guidelines for the drafting of Energy-Environmental Planning Documents for Port Systems. Fundamental notes on works and integrated systems in the port area for the production of electricity from renewable sources.
Tourist ports: implementation criteria and executive example. Technical recommendations for the design of tourist ports issued by the Italian section AIPCN – PIANC. Notes on the Project Financing tool.
More information
The professor is available to meet students at the end of lessons. In any case, it is possible to arrange appointments according to the teacher's availability by sending an email.