Common Mistakes in Design of Coastal & Marine Projects - 8 PDHs

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NOTE: This seminar was scheduled for June 22nd,
we have rescheduled to

October 26, 2020

Mott MacDonald, 111 Wood Ave South, Iselin, NJ 08830

If you have any questions please contact Jen Miller - jamiller@nysspe.org / 518-577-1132

Seminar Summary

This participatory classroom-seminar discusses common mistakes in the design of coastal & marine projects with the following objectives:

• To provide for a list of significant design mistakes
• To discuss case studies of damages referring to underlying design mistakes
• To introduce design tools and practical rules of thumb
• To perform class exercises

Special Features:
• Real-life case studies
• Participation in class exercises
• Several computational aids and design tools
• A collection of technical literature and educational video clips

Outline:
• Examples of major damages and failures
• Introduction to coastal & marine hydraulics (waves, currents, etc.)
• Introduction to coastal sediment transport
• COMMON MISTAKES related to:
o Design wave height
o Design water level
o Field data vs. theoretical guides
o Sediment transport (capacity vs. actual transport, etc.)
o Beach morphology
o Nature-based (green) solutions vs. gray structures
o Forces on structures (pipes, piles, sea walls, vessels, etc.)
o Breakwaters and revetments
o Static and dynamic stability of vessels
• Software and design tools
• Five take-away messages

What to Bring: A calculator
Optional: a laptop to access online resources.

Download the Seminar Details: NSPE seminar- Common Mistakes in Design of Coastal

Speaker

Saied Saiedi, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Senior Discipline Specialist, Bergmann Associates

Dr. Saied Saiedi is a civil engineer with 30 years of engineering and academic experience in Iran, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, and USA. His hydrotechnical interests cover a wide range: Free surface flow (hydraulic structures, sediment transport, river engineering, hydropower dams), water and power tunnel design, flood studies, stormwater management, dam safety review, coastal structures and processes, and floating offshore structures. He has developed, managed, and reviewed several numerical and physical modeling works. His COUPFLEX model (J. of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, May 1997; link) is among the first coupled simulations of unsteady river-sediment flow. Dr. Saiedi designed and oversaw the construction of a flume for river, wave, and sediment studies at Water Research Laboratory (Sydney, Australia) in 1991-1992. The facility has been since used for many projects involving riverine flows and coastal waves (link).

For several years in the 2000’s, Dr. Saiedi served NAHRIM (National Association of Hydraulic Research in Malaysia) as the senior adviser for coastal engineering projects. He also managed and technically led a design project on erosion protection and rehabilitation works related to a major TNB (link) hydropower facility in Malaysia in 2006-2007. While working for PETRONAS (Malaysian national oil and gas company, link), he trained several groups of engineers from various engineering disciplines to enter the realm of marine engineering (link). In 2006-2008, Dr. Saiedi conceptually designed a large wave flume and a large wave basin for the “Offshore Engineering Lab.” (link) at UTP for applied research projects in the areas of coastal and offshore engineering.

While working in Canada, Dr. Saiedi led or participated in the design and investigations for many HPP and dam facilities such as Site C (Canada, link), Kokish River (Canada, link), Toba Montrose (Canada, link), Tapoco Scheme (four HPP’s in US, link), Karcham-Wangtoo, Vishnuprayag & Baspa-II (four HPP’s in India, link), Stave Falls (Canada, link), John Hart (Canada, link), and Kemano (Canada, link). He has also shared over the years his experience with Professional Engineers in Canada and US through several short-courses on erosion control (link), hydropower facilities (link), sediment engineering (link), hydraulic structures (link), water tunnels (link), coastal and marine structures (link), and physical modeling (link).

Dr. Saiedi is a Staff Consultant at Bergmann, US. He technically leads, or is involved in, projects on erosion protection (Lake Michigan …), Dam Safety Reviews, stormwater protection, etc. He has extensive concurrent academic experience as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. While in Canada, he was the Director of Progress International Consultants and the former Hydrotechnical Discipline Lead (Western North America) of Hatch based in Vancouver.