Abstract: Sewage outfalls are common inclusions in the infrastructure of coastal cities and towns. Near-ocean industries may also make use of such pipes. Keeping such a conduit operating properly is by no means a trivial matter, and ...

Abstract: This paper, the second in a series, outlines the various methods that can be used to immobilize and protect an exposed outfall pipe that appears vulnerable to destabilizing agents such as waves, ice, logs, or fishing trawls. ...

Abstract: The incorporation of data from the physical environment allows a standard civil engineering probability and statistics course to double as an introduction to natural hazards. The requirement of a related term paper adds ...

Abstract: There is a worldwide movement for coastal municipalities in developed countries to replace whole series of storm drains with far fewer storm-water outfalls that discharge well offshore. Such an extended-length pipe, passing ...

Abstract: This paper considers the troubled diffusers of four major U.S. outfalls, one in Hawaii and three on the West Coast. All four of these facilities had damaged and/or blocked outflow devices, and contained deposits that were ...