Print Email Facebook Twitter The Application of load-cell technique in the study of armour unit responses to impact loads Title The Application of load-cell technique in the study of armour unit responses to impact loads Author Burcharth, H.F. Contributor Liu, Z. Corporate name TU Delft Project Rubble mound breakwaters failure modes Date 1995-12-31 Abstract The slender, complex types of armour units, such as Tetrapods and Dolosse are widely used for rubble mound breakwaters. Many of the recent failures of such structures were caused by unforeseen early breakage of the units, thus revealing an inbalance between the strength (structural integrity) of the units and the hydraulic stability (resistance to displacements) of the armour layers. Breakage is caused by stresses from static, pulsating and impact loads. Impact load generated stresses are difficult to investigate due to non-linear scaling laws. The paper describes a method by which impact loads on slender armour units can be studied by load-cell technique. Moreover, the paper presents Dolos design diagrams for the prediction of both breakage and hydraulic stability. Subject breakwatersarmour unitsdolostetrapodbreakageimpact Classification TPG110110TPG110122 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:33bc4f93-cbd5-464b-8625-3daaf9b8909b Publisher Aalborg University Source Final proceedings MAST II-RMBFM project Part of collection Hydraulic Engineering Reports Document type report Rights © 1995 Burcharth, H.F.Liu, Z. Files PDF Mast-RubbleMound07.pdf 696.06 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:33bc4f93-cbd5-464b-8625-3daaf9b8909b/datastream/OBJ/view