Projects in GWK

Coastal protection structures

• waveSTEPS - Wave run-up and overtopping on a stepped revetment

  Ludwig-Franzius-Insitut, FH Aachen

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Schlurmann, Dr.-Ing. Sven Liebisch

  Team: M.Eng. Talia Schoonees, Dr.-Ing. Nils B. Kerpen

  Year: 2018

  Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschungs (BMBF)

  Duration: 01.08.2016 - 31.07.2019

  © Forschungszentrum Küste
• Physical Model Erosion Tests on Loam Material under Wave Action

  Led by: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schimmels

  Team: Matthias Kudella, Stefan Schimmels, Franziska Staudt, Moritz Thom

  Year: 2017

  Duration: 02.01.2017 - 12.04.2017

  © Forschungszentrum Küste
• Focused wave experiments (HyReS)

  Led by: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schimmels

  Team: n Dr. Hernán Fernandez

  Year: 2014

  Funding: u HYDRALAB IV
• WAVESLAM - Wave Slamming Forces on Truss Structures in Shallow Water

  University of Stavanger Norwegian; University of Science and Technology (NTNU); University of Gdansk TU Hamburg; Reinertsen AS; MARINTEK; Det norske Veritas; Statoil; Areva Wind

  Led by: Professor Ove T. Gudmestad, UiS and Associate Professor Øivind A. Arntsen

  Year: 2013

  Funding: HYDRALAB IV - Transnational Access
• Experimental study on the performance of well-greade rubble material as scour protection - phase III

  Franzius-Institut für Wasserbau, Ästuar- und Küsteningenieurwesen, Forschungszentrum Küste

  Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Schlurmann

  Team: Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Schendel, Dr.-Ing. Nils Goseberg

  Year: 2012

  Funding: Mibau Baustoffhandel GmbH
• Large scale measurements of wave loads and mapping of impact pressure distribution at the underside of parapets

  University of Southampton Engineering and the Environment Highfield Southampton

  Led by: Dr. Gerald Müller, Dr. Dimitris Stagonas

  Year: 2012

  Funding: HYDRALAB IV - Transnational Access
• Impact loads on vertical storm walls by overtopping waves

  Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Ghent University (Belgium); Forschungszentrum Küste (FZK)

  Led by: Prof. Dr. Ir. Julien de Rouck

  Year: 2011

  Funding: Ghent University