Quay Walls

This new edition of Quay Walls provides the reader with essential knowledge for the planning, design, execution, and maintenance of quay walls, plus general information about historic developments and lessons gained from observation of ports in various countries. Technical chapters are followed by a detailed calculation of a quay wall, based on semi-probabilistic design procedure, which applies the theory presented earlier in the book.

Since the publication of the Dutch edition in 2003 and the English version in 2005, considerable new experience has been obtained by many practitioners using the book, leading to the need to update this handbook. The introduction of the Eurocodes in 2012 was further reason for a new version of the handbook, resulting in a complete revision of the Design chapter to comply with the Eurocodes. Additional recommendations for using FEM analysis with quay wall design have been incorporated.

Within the industry, discussions are going on about buckling criteria for steel pipe piles. Therefore, a thorough research project was carried out on steel pipe piles filled with sand and piles without sand. The results of this research programme have been incorporated in this new edition.

Finally, the section on corrosion has been updated to the latest knowledge, and attention has been given to the latest global developments in quay wall engineering. The new edition was made possible by the contributions of experts from the Netherlands and Belgium.