Series of four articles on construction of port under difficult conditions of traveling bottom sands and unprotected Atlantic coast; description of scale model tests to forecast sand advancement rate, and measures adopted to combat silting and erosion; construction of 1400 m long rockfill dike from 6- and 12-ton tetrapodes; dredging of inner dock and establishment of quay levels; vibrocompacting of fills; construction of sheet piling quay wall, 680 m long, 13.5 m effective height; 540 m long, 14.5 m high protecting bar, and crib head; description of method of construction in presence of swell.
Port of Cotonou
Le port de Cotonou
Construction ; 22 , n 9
1967
22 pages
Article (Journal)
French
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