Survey of research on the optimal design of sea harbours

Hassan Diab (1, 2) , Rafic Younes (2) , Pascal Lafon (1)

1 LASMIS - Laboratoire des Systèmes Mécaniques et d'Ingénierie Simultanée
2 Université Libanaise - Faculté de Génie

The design of harbours, as with any other system design, must be an optimization process. In this study, a global examination of the different constraints in coastal engineering was performed and an optimization problem was defined. The problem has multiple objectives, and the criteria to be minimized are the structure cost and wave height disturbance inside a harbour. As concluded in this survey, the constraints are predefined parameters, mandatory constraints or optional constraints. All of these constraints are categorized into four categories: environmental, fluid mechanical, structural and manoeuvring.

Domaines: Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]

Hassan Diab, Rafic Younes, Pascal Lafon. Survey of research on the optimal design of sea harbours. International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 2017, 9 (4), pp.460-472. ⟨10.1016/j.ijnaoe.2016.12.004⟩. ⟨hal-02282999⟩