Development and investigation of an island beach complex

Conclusions

• 1. The construction of island beach complexes is possible and economically expedient under certain conditions.

• 2. The advantage of the IBC over the traditional shore variants of creating artificial territories consists in the possibility of preserving the natural landscapes on the shores, increasing the dynamic stability of artificial beaches, improving the recreation qualities of the territories being created due to their transfer to cleaner areas compared with nearshore water areas and increasing the areas due to the use of enclosing structures, possibility of using the enclosing structures as moorings for small craft and of the island water area for mooring of these craft during storms (for a certain design of the IBC), reducing the cost of construction in a number of cases, and reducing wave action on the shore in the zone of influence of the IBC.

• 3. Optimal designing of IBCs is presently possible only on the basis of large-scale physical modeling.

• 4. Development of mathematical models and programs for optimal designing of IBCs on the basis of mathematical modeling is the subject of further investigations.

• 5. Construction of IBCs is a prospective direction in the creation of artificial recreation and technological territories and can be recommended for introduction into hydrotechnical construction practice.

At present Krymmorgidrostroi has begun the construction of an IBC in the region of Cape Feolent, the time of completing construction is September 1994.