The berth allocation problem (BAP), which de nes a processing interval and a berth at the quay wall for each ship to be (un-)loaded, is an essential decision problem for e ciently operating a container port. In this paper we integrate mobile quay walls into the BAP. Mobile quay walls are huge propelled oating platforms, which encase ships moored at the immobile quay and provide additional quay ...

The stability of the quay wall incorporating large diameter cylinders is of great concern at the Yangshan Port, China, owing to severe marine environment. In this study, finite element analysis is carried out to evaluate the stability of a trial quay wall during construction. The single cylinder is examined in terms of turnover failure subjected to a five year design wave action. The case when ...

failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. this study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

Failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. Because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. This study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

Deformation of quay walls is one of the main sources of damage to port facility while liquefaction of backfill and base soil of the wall are the main reasons for failures of quay walls. During earthquakes, the most susceptible materials for liquefaction in seashore regions are loose saturated sand. In this study, effects of enhancing the wall width and the soil improvement on the behavior of gr...

Sea states and environmental conditions are basic data for the design of marine structures. Hindcasted wave data have been applied here with the aim of identifying the proper design conditions for an innovative quay wall concept. In this paper, the results of a computational fluid dynamics model are used to optimise the new absorbing quay wall of Vlorë Harbour (Republic of Albania) and define t...

A quay wall directly next to a building, both dating from around 1870, collapsed along the Grimburgwal in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 1 September 2020. The historic consisted of masonry wall, built timber deck supported by several rows piles about 12 m long. As over 200 km such quays exists Amsterdam and streets are usually very busy, collapse triggered question safety remaining walls city. fore...