PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with specific 

 guidelines for selecting materials suitable for construction in the marine 

 environment. The study is confined to the properties of these materials and 

 treatments or variations thereof that are applicable to coastal engineering 

 structures. The work was carried out under the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering 

 Research Center's (CERC) Develop Functional and Structural Design Criteria 

 work unit, Coastal Structure Evaluation and Design Program, Coastal Engineer- 

 ing Area of Civil Works Research and Development. 



The report was prepared by Moffatt and Nichol, Engineers, under CERC 

 Contract No. DACW72-80-C-006. Preparation of the report was under the direc- 

 tion of L.L. Whiteneck, with assistance of L.A. Hockney and S.H. Anderson. 

 Consultation and technical writing was provided by R.J. Barrett, A.L. Roebuck, 

 CM. Wakeman, W.J. Herron, Jr., and R.A. Morrison and L.J. Lee of Woodward 

 and Clyde Consultants. Cooperation and assistance were provided by Corps 

 of Engineers Divisions and Districts. 



R.E. Ray was the CERC contract monitor for the report, under the super- 

 vision of Mr. R.A. Jachowski, former Chief of the Coastal Design Branch, and 

 Mr. N. Parker, Chief, Engineering Development Division. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



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ED E. BISHOP 

 Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



