Experimental study on a breaking-enforcing floating breakwater

Floating breakwaters are moored structures that attenuate wave energy through a combination of reflection and dissipation. Studies into floating breakwaters have been generally restricted to optimising the attenuation performance. This study presents a novel floating breakwater type that was developed to have good attenuation performance while...

Applicability of numerical models in simulating morphological changes due to offshore breakwaters

Present strategies for coastal defence in the Dutch coast are mainly focused on conventional solutions such as revetments, dunes, dikes, groynes as well as on beach nourishment. No attention has so far been paid to the implementation of Offshore Breakwaters. An offshore breakwater is a shore parallel structure which is constructed seperately...

Effectiveness of coastal defence measures: Design background for coastal defence and management: near field and far-field factors in overall (geometrical) and structural design

The description of the transformation of shore in larger scales, i.e. the far-field effects, is summarized in Chapter 2 while the near-field mechanisms, encompassing different overall and local failure modes, stability and performance are dealt with in Chapter 3. Both are foliowed by Chapters 4 and 5 with design computations and examples,...