Ship Channel Design and Operation - American Society of Civil Engineers [2005, PDF]

Ship Channel Design and Operation

Year: 2005
Language: english
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: ASCE
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 276
Description: This manual was completed by ASCE’s Task Committee for updating Manual
80, Ship Channel Design, 1993. Task Committee members were: Bruce
L. McCartney, Chairman and Editor; Dr. Laurie L. Ebner, Portland District,
Corps of Engineers; Dr. Lyndell Z. Hales, Waterways Experiment Station,
Corps of Engineers; and Eric E. Nelson, Seattle District, Corps of Engineers.
Chapter 3, “Ship Characteristics’’was authored by Ogden Beeman, Maritime
Consultant. Eric Christensen, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard, authored
Chapter 20, “Coast Guard Activities that Support Navigation.’’ All
other chapters and appendices were assembled by Bruce L. McCartney.
Additional contributions were made by the following: Dr. Cyril Galvin,
Coastal Engineer; Andrew M. Tuthill, Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory, Corps of Engineers; R. Anne Sudar, Institute for
Water Resources, Corps of Engineers; and Charles C. Calhoun, Jr., President
COPRI, 2003–2004.
Waterways Committee Review was performed by the following:
Dr. Anatoly B. Hochstein, Director, National Ports and Waterways Institute;
Dr. B. K. Lee, Consulting Engineer; and E. Clark McNair, Jr., Consulting
Engineer.
Peer review was performed by the following: Dr. James R. Houston,
Director, Engineering Research Directorate, Corps of Engineers; Doug
Thiessen, Chief Harbor Engineer for Port of Long Beach, California; Dr.
William H. McAnally, Research Professor, Mississippi State University;
and Dr. Kees d’Angremond, Professor Emeritus, Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of
Hydraulic Engineering.