RT journal article
T1 A new and more accurate overfill ratio for beach nourishments and its comparison with James' RA
A1 Contreras de Villar, Antonio
A1 Pranzini, Enzo
A1 Anfuso Melfi, Giorgio
A1 Muñoz Pérez, Juan José
A2 Ciencias de la Tierra
A2 Física Aplicada
A2 Ingeniería Industrial e Ingeniería Civil
K1 Borrow sediment
K1 Fill stability
K1 Granulometric parameters
K1 Sand size
K1 beach nourishment
AB Pranzini et al. (2018) designed a method, for borrowed sediment selection in beach nourishment projects, that solved the problems inherent to James' abacus (1975). However, it suffered in turn from the lack of an overfill ratio. A new and more accurate methodology is presented here to calculate the mentioned ratio. To demonstrate the implications of the new proposed method, the overfill ratios calculated are compared with those obtained using the method of James (RA) for nine beaches and nourished sands with different granulometries. The comparison showed that the method of James (1975) predicted a much larger fraction of the borrow sediment to be unstable, thus requiring higher nourishment volumes to achieve a certain beach width and implying increased economic costs.
PB Elsevier
SN 0025-3227
YR 2026
FD 2026-01-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38338
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38338
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026