The beach drainage can be included among the soft engineering methods aimed to
counteract the shoreline retreat related to the sediment redistribution along the beach …

The land transformation process in the last decades produced the urbanization growth in flat
and coastal areas all over the world. The combination of natural phenomena and human …

Coastal hazards represent an existential threat to Italian coastal regions since they host
important economic centers related to manufacturing and tourism. Knowledge of potential …

The main aim of the present work is to provide an experimental and numerical seabed
pressure dataset beneath rubble mound breakwaters with submerged berms. The …

Human presence, coastal erosion, and tourism activities are increasing the attention to
coastal flooding risk. To perform risk assessments, long time series of observed or hindcast …

Berms deployed at the toe of conventional rubble mound breakwaters can be very effective
in improving the stability of the armor layer. Indeed, their design is commonly tackled by …

Breakwater is a building that is formed to dampen the brunt of waves in an accelerating fluid.
The breakwater has the characteristic of resisting the velocity of a very large fluid wave by …

Shoreline models have usually been recognized by professionals as the most appropriate
tool for reproducing the long-term morphodynamic evolution of the shoreline of sandy …

A new experimental campaign on a 2D movable-bed physical model, reproducing a typical
nourishment sandy beach profile, is being carried out in the wave flume of the Laboratory of …

Storm surge and wave runup are key determinants of the potential for beach overwashing
during storm events. However, the prediction and quantification of wave runup on embayed …