Dear Colleagues,

The design, management, use, maintenance, improvement, adaptation and construction of coastal and harbour structures are at an important historical point, highly influenced by the current effects of climate change, the increasingly demanding requirements of use and the growing sizes of vessels and the need to locate them in areas increasingly exposed to more extreme oceanic climates.

Therefore, the current methods must be improved with designs that consider their ecological effects, adaptability, resilience, cost and efficiency, more in line with the actual capabilities of hi-res climate databases, novel instrumentation techniques, advanced numerical approaches and highly detailed laboratory tests. As well as new structures, pre-existing structures (which have a shorter lifespan in terms of usefulness) need to be revised, improved and/or adapted in the very short term.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish the most exciting research with respect to the abovementioned subjects, provide a rapid turn-around time regarding the review and publication process and to disseminate the articles freely for research, teaching and reference purposes.

High-quality papers directly related to the various aspects listed below are encouraged. The use of novel techniques is encouraged.

• Breakwater and coastal structure design;
• Quay design;
• Special typology design;
• Harbour agitation and resonance;
• Wave propagation numerical modelling and coastal and harbour downscaling;
• Laboratory approach for wave structure design;
• CDF modelling for wave-structure interaction;
• Downtime analysis;
• Moored ship analysis;
• Probabilistic approach for structure design;
• Working with nature design and philosophy;
• Structure resilience;
• Climate change structure adaptation.

Dr. Gabriel Diaz-Hernandez
Dr. Vicente Negro
Guest Editors

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• port and coastal structure design
• harbour agitation
• resonance
• wave modelling
• laboratory approach
• downtime analysis
• probabilistic approach
• structure resilience
• climate change adaptation