1. Tiaozini Land reclamation: Preliminary port area design
- Author
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Beemsterboer, D. (author), Christophe, J. (author), Scheepjens, R. (author), Veldman, M. (author), Van der Wielen, V. (author), Beemsterboer, D. (author), Christophe, J. (author), Scheepjens, R. (author), Veldman, M. (author), and Van der Wielen, V. (author)
- Abstract
In 2009 the Chinese State Council approved the developing plan for Jiangsu coastal zone that was part of the national developing strategy. The plan set goals to reclaim 21 areas in the Jiangsu coastal zone with main objective to achieve an economical impulse for the Jiangsu province. The Tiaozini reclamation acted as a pilot project and was assigned a priority area due to its size and strategic position between Lianyungang and Shanghai. The proposed occupation guidelines for Tiaozini hardly met the objective of giving an economical impulse and revision of the area was required. The northern part of Tiaozini was still under construction and was further assessed in this study. The Dutch layer approach was explicitly used as an analyzing tool to make a top-down preliminary design for the Tiaozini port area using Dutch norms and standards. This tool allowed the study to be divided in three conditioning layers; occupation, network and base layer allowed for a multidisciplinary and iterative process. The most suitable occupation was determined using macroeconomic, industry-specific and port analysis. Due to the favorable investment climate ensuring future potential, lack of competitors and presence of partners, an efficiently organized public-private petrochemical port area was determined as preliminary occupation for the northern part of Tiaozini. The supporting transport network should take the following criteria into account: modal split, flexibility, sustainability and capacity. These criteria were determined by the characteristics of the petrochemical industry. The connection between the network and base layer was made by the use of the main enabling road connection. The embankment settlement for the required six-lane highway was calculated using D-Settlement numerical program in combination with NEN-Bjerrum calculation method and checked using analytical NEN-Koppejan method. A 4.5m high surcharge preload in combination with vertical drains was required for six month, Hydraulic Engineering, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
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- 2012