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.


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    Title :

    Port of Cotonou


    Additional title:

    Le port de Cotonou


    Contributors:
    Sireyjol, P. (author) / Pelnard-Considere, R. (author) / Prin, P. (author) / Loubriat, J.B. (author) / Toth, I. (author)

    Published in:

    Construction ; 22 , n 9


    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    French