Topic:Engineering

Within Encora, Theme 8 is titled "New Sustainable Coastal Engineering Techniques"

• Protection against coastal erosion
• Shore protection, coast protection and sea defence methods
• Practical guidelines for Shore Protection
• Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
• Accumulation and erosion for different coastal type
• Application of breakwaters
• Groynes as Shore Protection
• Applicability of detached breakwaters
• Typical examples of structural erosion

Types of coastal defence

• Seawall
• Revetment
• Detached shore parallel breakwaters
• Beach drainage
• Detached breakwaters
• Detached breakwater
• Shore nourishment
• Artificial nourishment
• Cliff stabilisation
• Dune stabilisation
• Coves - artificial formation and use
• Groynes
• Bulkhead