Recent Italian Experience in the Design and Construction of Vertical Breakwaters

Italy is often considered as a mother country of vertical breakwaters for harbour protection, since they have been widely used all along our coasts long since. An updated location map is given in fig. 1, which also shows the position of the directional wave recording stations of the existing Italian network. The most common vertical breakwaters...

Reflection and Transmission Characteristics of Porous Rubble-Mound Breakwaters

This report presents the results of a study of the reflection and transmission characteristics of porous rubble-mound breakwaters. An attempt was made at making the procedures entirely self-contained by introducing empirical relationships for the hydraulic characteristics of the porous material and by establishing experimentally an empirical...

Wave transmission through rock structures

Application of the energy method leads to a theoretical expression of the coefficient of transmission through a prismatic structure, constructed from rocks of uniform size, for long waves traversing the structure. When the dissipation in the voids is due partly to turbulent forces, the transmissions are expressed by a power formula . The formula...