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Dredging'S Technics in Maritime Engineering Author: Laia Ortego Valencia / Tutor: Vicenç Gracia García

Dredging plays an important role in maritime engineering projects like maintaining ports and coastal areas. There is a wide variety of dredging equipment that can be used for different stages of dredging projects like excavation, transport, and depositing material. The selection of the appropriate dredging equipment depends on factors like the conditions of the work site, depth of dredging needed, and characteristics of the sediment. Dredging works help redistribute sediment along coastlines to counteract the unnatural disruption of sand movement caused by marine infrastructure. Projects aim to dredge accumulating zones and deposit the material in erosion areas to correct irregular sediment distribution. Careful study of coastal processes is important for effective sediment bypassing projects.

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Dredging'S Technics in Maritime Engineering Author: Laia Ortego Valencia / Tutor: Vicenç Gracia García

Dredging plays an important role in maritime engineering projects like maintaining ports and coastal areas. There is a wide variety of dredging equipment that can be used for different stages of dredging projects like excavation, transport, and depositing material. The selection of the appropriate dredging equipment depends on factors like the conditions of the work site, depth of dredging needed, and characteristics of the sediment. Dredging works help redistribute sediment along coastlines to counteract the unnatural disruption of sand movement caused by marine infrastructure. Projects aim to dredge accumulating zones and deposit the material in erosion areas to correct irregular sediment distribution. Careful study of coastal processes is important for effective sediment bypassing projects.

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DREDGINGS TECHNICS IN MARITIME ENGINEERING ABSTRACT Author: Laia Ortego Valencia / Tutor: Vicen Gracia Garca Dredgings works

have an important participation in any port or coastal work, being currently very related to the artificial feedings of beaches. His applications are nevertheless much more diverse, intervening for example in the conditioning of the funds, in the extraction of materials and in the securing of landfills. The used machinery acquires a special leading role in this type of works and is decisive in the final cost of the operation. There exists a great variety of dredging equipment, which differentiate principally in the way of realizing the excavation. Some of them are specialized in one of three stages of the dredging (excavation, transport or spilt), whereas others are capable of realizing the set of the operation. The dredges are in the habit of qualifying in mechanics or hydraulics, being the above mentioned those who obtain major yields and improve ended. The selection of the most suitable equipment depends on a whole series of factors, on between which there can be outlined the conditions of the emplacement (dimensions of the zone, depth of dredging, agitation, distance to the point of spilt, environmental requests) and the characterization of the material (type of sediment, grade of pollution). The increasing worry for the environment is fomenting the reuse of all kinds of products, including the proceeding ones from dredging, by what there must be looked uses that allow to promote the dredged clean material or lightly contaminated. The selection of the type and of the zone of spilt should continue the guidelines of every country. The marine works constructed on the coast interrupt the natural movement of the sand, provoking an irregular distribution of the sediment that can be corrected by dredging works. Generalitat de Catalunya is developing at present a service of dredging in order to manage the existing sand on the catalan coast. This redistribution of the sediment might be realized by sand bypassing, dredging the material in accumulation zones and depositing it in those of erosion. The sand bypassing can carry out with fixed systems or mobile systems of dredging. The frequency of the bypass depends on the system used to intercept the material. The principal difficulty of any project of bypass resides in the need to have a very precise information of the coastal processes, which is difficult to obtain and is besides very variable in time and space. In order to obtain the ideal zone of dredging that allows to reduce the beach breadth in the zone of sediment accumulation, it has been observed that the biggest regressions are obtained as closer one finds the trench of dredging of the coast. In the studied case, it is recommended to realize dredging to a level lower than 4 m to obtain significant regressions of the beach. Besides, the obtained regression is major as major is the volume of dredging. The grain of the sediment also influences the changes provoked by the dredging on the morphology of the coast. A sand extraction to so small depths can be realized by a fixed system of dredging or by a dredge with very slightly soaked. The study of the longitudinal dynamics demonstrates that, in the studied cases, the dredging to these depths are in the zone of major capacity of longitudinal transport, by what it is hoped that in the conditions of an average year the beach profile should recover, taking up office providing that the zone of extraction has a void condition of transport to the longitudinal transport in one of his ends.

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