International Navigation Association

PIANC. 2001. Seismic design guidelines for port structures. International Navigation Association (PIANC), Balkema Publishers, Netherlands. 

The International Navigation Association (PIANC ) addresses the issue of safety for navigation project design in their June, 1997 publication, "Approach Channels, A Guide for Design" (PIANC 1997). It provides the following in Section 2.3 ... 

The International Navigation Association was formerly known as the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses and retains the acronym PIANC. 

FIGURE 6-1. PIANC Approach Channel Design Procedure. Courtesy of International Navigation Association. 

PIANC. (2003). Guidelines for Sustainable Inland Waterways and Navigation, Report of Working Group 6 of the Environmental Commission, International Navigation Association, Brussels. 

PIANC (1997) Handling and treatment of contaminated dredged material from ports and inland waterways, Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (PIANC), Report of Working Group No. 17, Supplement to Bulletin No. 89. 

He was a member of the US Commission of Large Dams, and the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congress PIANC. He was appointed to the National Academy of Engineers, and was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, serving as member in its Executive Committee of the Hydraulics Division ASCE from 1968 to 1974. 

He was a member of the Ameriean Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, the American Concrete Institute ACI, the Permanent International Assoeiation of Navigation Congresses PIANC, and of the International Association of Hydraulic Research lAHR. 

The Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (1972) adopted a system of classification of soils, reviewed by Sargent (1984) and summarized in Tables... 

Sargent, J. H. 1984. Classification of Soils to be Dredged. In Supplement to Bulletin No 47. The Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. 

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