Punta Langosteira port, located in A Coruña (Spain), was monitored during the winters of 2017 and 2018, measuring wave pressure crown wall structure. Furthermore, metocean variables were measured on a buoy very close to breakwater. This paper presents real pressures at breakwater different storm events. These values are compared with results application state-of-the-art equations for calculatio...

In recent years, the interest of scientific community in perforated plates for ballistic protection has increased. Perforated do not represent by themselves, rather, they are used armour systems armoured vehicles, conjunction with base armour, since intended to induce bend stresses, where a penetrating core fracture occurs. The fragments subsequently stopped vehicle armour. Although first time ...

One of the most critical issues associated with the design and development of sacrificial plasma facing components that have to handle the high heat and particle fluxes in ITER is achieving the necessary contact conductance between the plasma protection material and the high-conductivity material in contact with the coolant. This paper presents a novel bond idea which is proposed as one of the ...

Aim This study furthers the documentation of the geographical distribution of two divergent (c. 3%) mitochondrial DNA clades in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and tests the hypotheses that the northeastern Pacific distribution has been influenced by post-glacial colonization and lake elevation and that clade identity is associated with certain morphological attributes such ...

A set of tools that is being developed for the automated inspection of rubble-mound breakwaters, as well as its application to the survey of Sines' west breakwater armour layer, are described. The results from the IRIS surveys are compared to those of the surveys carried out by the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute and first assessment of the structure evolution between 2000 and 2003 is made.