BEACH EROSION LITERATURE 



Uiere are listed below some recent acquisitions of the Baard's 

 library which are considered to be of general interest o Copies of 

 these publications can be obtained on 30=day loan by field offices 

 of the Corps of Engineers and other government agencies o 



"Contribution a L'Etude de la Houle au Voisinage des Cotes," 



Lo Carlotti, La Houille Blanche $, Norwelle Serie^ 2nd year, Noo 6, 

 November-December 19^7, and 3rd year, NOo 2, April -March 19^8 o 



The article discusses the conditions for model studies of wave 

 action in ports or harbors required to insure accurate results o 

 Geometric, or form, similitude and dyTiamic similitude only in 

 respect to wave damping and resonance are dis cussed o Rules gov- 

 erning the allowable distortion of models are presented o A dis- 

 cussion of the required accuracy of measurement of model quantities 

 is valuable o 



"Stabilization of Sand Dunes in the Pacific Northwest," Orlie Wo 

 Smith, Ho Do Jacquot, Robert Lo Brown, Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations, The State College of Washington, Bulletin Noo i+92, 

 August 1947, 16 ppo, bibliographyo 



This paper reviews the important literature, and reports on an 

 experiment on control of inland sand dunes near Delight, Adams 

 County, Washington o Seven of ttie 43 grasses tested showed prom- 

 ise for initial sand-stillingo Vegetative propagation was found 

 to be the only practical method of establishing the grasses o Per= 

 raanent stabilization was found to be more adequately assured by 

 using adapted woody plants in combination with secondary herba- 

 ceous species Three of the six woody plants that survived trial 

 demonstrated value for permanent stabilization <> 



"Gradual Damping of Solitary, Tfeves," Go Ho Keulegan, Journal of Re- 

 search, National Bureau of Standards, Volume 40> June 1948 j, Research 

 Paper RP 1895 o 



This paper treats the problem of damping by viscous action of 

 translation waves o Boussinesq"s boundary layer theory for wave 

 motion is discussed, and expressions for the damping of rectangu- 

 lar and solitary waves are derived o Scott Russell" s experimental 

 results for solitary waves are compared with the theory, and sat- 

 isfactory agreement is found to exist o Therefore, the formulae 

 developed may be applied to correct for the dissipative effects 

 that occur in shallow water waves in model tests of harbors or in 

 like tests o 



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