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Field and Laboratory Investigations

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The coastal zone—where the land, sea, and air meet—is one of the most complex areas for conducting civil engineering analysis and design. Owing to the nature of the coastal zone, most coastal engineering analysis and design procedures have a partial or complete empirical basis. This empirical basis must be developed and continually improved through extensive field, and in some cases, laboratory investigations.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

    Robert M. Sorensen

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Sorensen, R.M. (1997). Field and Laboratory Investigations. In: Basic Coastal Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2665-7_9

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