Berm breakwater structures: Berm breakwater trunk exposed to oblique waves

The major part of the research on berm breakwaters has concentrated on the berm reshaping of a trunk section exposed to head-on waves. Recent research included aspects related to individual stone movements under perpendicular wave attack (eg Tomasicchio et al). For a berm breakwater trunk section consisting of berm stones smaller than a certain...

On the stability of berm breakwaters roundheads and trunk erosion of oblique waves

The stability of a berm type breakwater (sacrificial breakwater) was tested in a 3-dimensional model at rhe Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of civil Engineering, university of Aalborg. The object was to study the stability/erosion of the breakwater head and the trunk, the latter exposed to both head-on and oblique irregular waves. To avoid too...