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Name

Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Bridges, Roads and Hydraulic Structures

Native name

Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen, Vakgroep Civiele Techniek, Afdeling weg- en waterbouw

Address

Campus Ardoyen, Technologiepark 904

Zipcode

9052

City

Gent

Country

Belgium

Phone

+32-(0)9-264 54 89

Fax

+32-(0)9-264 58 37

Email

julien.derouck@ugent.be

Centre Website

http://awww.ugent.be

organisation profile

Coastal engeneering. Design, construction and monitoring of coastal structures, mainly breakwaters and sea dikes. Research concerning attenuation of pore pressures in a rubble mound breakwater induced by wave action and wave run-up and wave overtopping on rubble mound breakwaters and sea dikes. For both topics use is made of measurements on prototype, scale model tests and numerical modelling. Development and exploitation of measurement jetty and instruments at Zeebrugge for prototype measurements on breakwater. Development of numerical wave laboratory for wave propagation and interaction with structures. Behaviour of deep water quay walls: permanent and variable actions (e.g. tide, cranes, ...). Experimental Facility: Physical Wave Flume; Prototype Measurements of Wave Interaction with Zeebrugge Rubble Mound Breakwater; OPTICREST: The Optimisation of Crest Level Design of Sloping Coastal Structures through Prototype Monitoring and Modelling (1998 - 2001); CLASH :Crest Level Assessment of Coastal Structures by Full Scale Monitoring, neural network prediction and Hazard Analysis on permissible wave overtopping; HARO: a Massive Hollow Armour Unit for Efficiënt and Economical Protection of Breakwaters; Physical Model Tests of the Hydraulic Stability of Armour Units; A Semi-Dynamic Approach for the Slope Stability Analysis of Rubble Mound Breakwaters; Large Scale Model Tests on Wave Run-up and Overtopping on Rubble Mound Breakwaters; Digital Stepgauge Measurement System for Wave Run-up Measurements in Model and in Prototype; Experimental Study and Numerical Modelling of Pore Pressure Attenuation inside a Rubble Mound Breakwater; Study of the Stability of a Sea Dike by Wave Impact through Prototype Measurements; Study of a Wave Propagation in Shallow Water through Prototype Measurements; Numerical Simulation of Wave Penetration for the new Design of Oostende Harbour; MILDwave, a Numerical Wave Propagation Model; VOFbreak2: Development of Two-Dimensional Numerical Wave Flume for Simulation of Wave Interaction with Rubble Mound Breakwaters; Numerical Simulation of Wave Overtopping over a Smooth Impermeable Sea Dike; Performance of Numerical Boundary Condition based on Active Wave Absorption System; Large physical wave flume; Particle Image Velocimetry,

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EDMO record id

2027

Collating centre

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Belgian Marine Data Centre (MUMM-BMDC)

Latest update

20 March 2009 5:48:56 PM