The term “damage” in rubble mound breakwaters is usually related to the foremost failure
mode of this kind of coastal structures: their hydraulic instability. The characterization of the …

Permeable breakwaters have always been of interest due to their advantages over the
traditional types. This study proposed a stochastic multi-criteria decision-making model to …

Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is one of the most well-known methods to deal
with uncertainties in the design methods. There are still challenges with the application of …

Port activities are crucial for sustained, long-term economic growth, serving as the primary
nodes for importing and exporting goods within global supply chains. Given their coastal …

Historic coastal structures have played a key role in small-to medium-size ports, being the
driving force for the local development of coastal communities. Because coastal managers …

Motivated by existing damage accumulation modeling difficulties, some suggestions on how
to build consistent stochastic models for damage accumulation in breakwaters are given …

This study presents exact solution analysis for the cost optimization of Composite Beams
(CB) based on the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) specifications. Matlab code …

In this paper a review of some decomposition techniques previously given by the authors to
solve bi-level problems is presented within a unified formulation, and a new variant is …

The purpose of this research is to develop a new method for automatically optimizing the
seawall cross-section with composite slopes and a berm, considering both overtop** …

A formulation to assess the reliability and cost of a breakwater, including the economical
impact of port operations, is proposed. The limit state function is the stability performance of …