Optimization plainly dominates the design, planning, operation, and c-trol of engineering
systems. This is a book on optimization that considers particular cases of optimization …

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 …

The principal stresses that occur in soil below ground level often change direction due to
engineering activities. A typical example would be the cyclic loading applied by waves and …

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 …

The effects of climate change on coastal areas are expected to significantly influence the risk
for port operations. In the present work, a novel methodology for the quantitative assessment …

This article introduces a method for sensitivity analysis of general applicability. The method
is based on the well-known duality property of mathematical programming, which states that …

This paper reviews the available models for the estimation of mean wave overtopping rate at
berm breakwaters. A sensitivity analysis was conducted on selected models in order to study …

The paper introduces a new approach to composite breakwater design based on minimizing
initial/construction costs subject to yearly failure rate bounds for all failure modes, and …

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

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 …