"Report to the Fifteenth International 3100GR0001 



Congress of Navigation" 



Pala, F. , and d'Arrige, A., Fifteenth International 



Congress of Navigation , Permanent International 



Association of Navigation Congresses, Brussels, 



2nd Section - Ocean Navigation, 2nd Question, 



No. 79, 1931, 24 pp. (TC5 . InSn) 



The theory and purpose of groins, their design, and examples are 

 discussed in this report on coastal erosion and shore protective 

 structures . 



Key Words - Impermeable/Accretion/Single/System/Short/Timber/Theory/ 

 Field/Europe/1900-1949/Misc-plan/ 



"Report to the Fifteenth International 3100GR0002 



Congress of Navigation" 



Schmidt, R. , and Heiser, I., Fifteenth 



International Congress of Navigation , 



Permanent International Association of 



Navigation Congresses, Brussels, 2nd Section - 



Ocean Navigation, 2nd Question, No. 73, 1931, 



31 pp. (TC5 .InSn) 



The theory and purpose of groins, their design, and examples are 

 presented in this report on coastal erosion and shore protection 

 structures. 



Key Words - Accretion/Europe/1900-1949/System/Structural-design/ 



Mis c-plan/Const-procedures/Single/Pi ling/Rubble -mound/ 

 Timber/ Impermeable/Eros ion/ 



"Sea Walls and Groins of Steel Sheeting 3105GR0001 



Stabilize Miami Beach" 



Taylor, L. B., Engineering News -Record , 



McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., Vol. 106, No. 19, 



May 1931, pp. 760-762. 



This article gives the plans, cost and performance of a groin that 

 was constructed at Miami Beach. The steel groin consisted of Larsen 

 steel sheetpiling. 



Key Words - Const-procedure/Economics/Steel/Structural-design/Timber/ 

 Piles /Impermeable/ 



