Shoreline hardening is a major driver of biodiversity and habitat loss in coastal ecosystems yet remains common approach to management globally. Using surveys waterfront residents North Carolina, USA, we sought identify factors influencing individual shore-protection decisions ultimately impacting ecosystems, particularly wetlands. We found that neighboring shore condition was the best predicto...

Submerged breakwaters are one of the shore protective structures. Any discontinuity in these breakwaters causes changes on current parameters including speed and water surface profile. In this paper, discontinuous submerged breakwaters were modelled to investigate the changes in the wave and flow pattern.To investigate the phenomenon, three models including a shore with constant slope, a shore ...

Reedswamps meet three important functions in landscape ecology: They act as a structural element and as a food-plant for a highly specialized fauna (species protection), the rhizomes stabilize the sediment and the stalks dissipate the wave energy (shore protection), and they improve the conditions for an enhanced microbial decomposition of an external organic load and an elimination or fIXation...

Physical model tests with the scale of 1:36 are carried out in the Near-Shore Wave Basin (NSWB) at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory (THL) with the jacket-type offshore wind turbine foundation (jacket-type foundation) and the combination of hard or soft scour protection in the test area. Scouring around the jacket-type foundation exposed to wave and current was conducted in the NSWB with a mobile be...

The extensive application of power transfer through high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission links in smart grid scenarios is due to many factors such as high-power efficiency, decoupled interconnection, control AC networks, reliable and flexible operation, integration large wind photovoltaic (PV)-based off-shore on-shore farms, cost-effectiveness, etc. However, it vital focus on other a...

Hydrophobic coatings have potential applications in various fields, including for corrosion and weathering protection. In this study, we investigated the use of organopolysilazanes (OPSZs) combined with hydrophobic nanoparticles (NPs) on steel as a substrate to obtain coatings. The were characterized using techniques, their properties resistance evaluated under near-shore marine conditions high...