Hydraulic and coastal structures in international perspective

The objective of this paper is to bring some international perspectives on the policy, design, construction, and monitoring aspects of Hydraulic and Coastal Structures in general, and whenever possible, to present some comparison (or reasons for differences) between the experiences of various countries and/or geographical regions. This chapter reviews the trends of our hydraulic/coastal engineering profession and presents an overview of miscellaneous aspects, which should be a part of the entire design process for civil engineering structures. This overview ranges from initial problem identification boundary condition definition and functional analysis, to design concept generation, selection, detailing an costing and includes an examination of the construction and maintenance considerations and quality assurance/quality control aspects. It also indicates the principles and methods, which support the design procedure making reference as appropriate to other parts of the chapter. It must be recognized that the design process is a complex iterative process and my be described in more than one way. Some speculation on the possible future needs and/or trends in hydraulic and coastal structures in the larger international perspective is also presented briefly.KWP-collectio