Section I. INTRODUCTION 



This bibliography makes available to those interested a complete 

 listing of the publications of the former Beach Erosion Board (BEB) and 

 its successor, the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 



The Beach Erosion Board began publishing in 1940, and by 1963 had 

 produced 135 Technical Memorandums, 5 Miscellaneous Papers, 4 Technical 

 Reports, and 17 volumes of a Bulletin. 



CERC, since 1963, has published 24 Technical Memorandums, 10 

 Miscellaneous Papers, and 2 Bulletins. Members of the CERC staff fre- 

 quently prepare articles for publication in scientific journals, and 

 since 1966, reprints of 8 such articles have been distributed by CERC 

 in a Reprint series. 



All of these publications are listed in the following sections of 

 this bibliography along with a summary or abstract of each report or 

 article. To aid the users, several indexes have been added. These 

 include an index of authors, index of titles, and a subject index. 

 Keywords in the subject index include geographic designations where 

 littoral studies or improvements have been made. 



A listing of published Beach Erosion Control Reports is included 

 in the index of House Documents. (These books are usually available 

 in large public libraries.) States are listed alphabetically; regions 

 within each State are listed chronologically by number of Congress. 



Of al I these publ ications, the most comprehensive and the most 

 popular is Technical Report No. 4, SHORE PROTECTION, PLANNING AND 

 DESIGN. This manual was originally published in 1954 and contained 

 a great deal of the material that had appeared in early BEB reports. 

 To keep abreast of advances in coastal engineering. Technical Report 

 No. 4 was revised in 1957, a second edition came out in 1961, and a 

 third edition in 1966. The revision and each new edition were updated 

 largely by the addition and substitution of material published in other 

 BEB and CERC publications. The material in TR 4 has not been included 

 in the subject index of this bibliography because a separate subject 

 index has been prepared for TR 4. 



CERC publications are distributed within the United States free 

 of charge. They are sent to government agencies and schools in other 

 countries under provisions of exchange agreements. A list of publi- 

 cations, showing current availability, may be obtained from CERC. 



