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ISOstandard 21650 (Actions from waves and currents on coastal structures)

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The use of Rock in Hydraulic Engineering, published by CIRIA, CUR and Cetmef (in English and Frensh)

EurOtop

European overtopping manual, published by ENW (Netherlands), KfKI (Germany) and EA (UK). Paper version: ISNB 978-3-8042-1064-6. Mirror of the pdf of the overtopping manual is available from TUDelft. There is also a page with errata and a page with comments.

US design manuals

Coastal Engineering Manual:

part1 - part2 - part3 - part4 - part5 - annexes   (full manual in one pdf)

Shore protection manual (1984)

This manual is replaced by the CEM (see above), but is still used by many people

Engineer manuals from US-ACE

The US Army corps of Engineers has published a number of manuals relevant for hydraulic engineering. This page of the USACE gives an overview of these manuals

  FEMA coast construction manual

Manual published by FEMA for the design of structures in flood prone areas in the coastal zone. Open manual with "vol1_front.pdf", browse to the table of contents and open the chapter of your choice by clicking on the (sub-)chapter title. See also "__readme.txt"

USACE NED manuals

A series of manuals on the economics and management of infrastructure. Detailed manuals are available on Economics, Flood Risk Management, Coastal Storm Risk Management, Deep Draft Navigations, Urban Flood Damage, Agricultural Flood Damage

Design of Locks (1)

English translation of "Ontwerp van Schutsluizen", by Glerum and Vrijburcht (2000), originally published by Rijkswaterstaat in Dutch (Note: part 2 is not translated in English)

  Ontwerp van Schutsluzen

Nederlandse versie van het ontwerphandboek (deel 1 en 2) in aparte pdf's per hoofdstuk