Wave transmission at vertical breakwaters

Recently, interest in vertical breakwaters has grown. The development of ports from natural small harbours to artificial large harbours facing the outer sea has demanded the construction of breakwaters in rougher seas. The vertical breakwater could play a role of importance in this development. To obtain general guidelines for the design of...

Economic optimal design of vertical breakwaters

In Europe the interest in and the importance of vertical breakwaters is growing. A central point is the optimal geometry, e.g. the width and height of the breakwater caisson chosen such that the total costs over the lifetime of the structure are minimized. Probabilistic design tools provide several methods to determine the probability of failure...

Ontwerp van een verplaatsbare caissongolfbreker voor Maasvlakte 2

Voorstudie Om de leidende rol die de haven van Rotterdam in de wereldhandel heeft te kunnen handhaven is het noodzakelijk voor de komende decennia ruimte te creeren in de nabijheid van de haven. Dit kan door het aanleggen van een tweede Maasvlakte, een landaanwinning in zee. Het is mogelijk gebleken deze Maasvlakte 2 technisch, morfologisch,...

The application of spectral analysis in the determination of wave loads on vertical breakwaters

Vertical breakwaters are used in the design of harbours to create a protective area. This protective area can be an approach channel or the harbour itself. Because of large new projects, such as Maasvlakte 11 in the Netherlands and the increasing sizes of ships, many harbours have to be placed in deep water. Deep water requires higher...

Wave impacts on vertical breakwaters

The need for coastal structures, such as breakwaters, at great water depths is rapidly increasing as a result ofthe increasing draught of large vessels and off-shore land reclamations which can, for instance, be used for the benefit of the expansion of harbours and related industrial activities. In water depths greater than approximately 10 m...

Beschouwing van constructiekosten van monoliet golfbrekers

In deze studie zijn voor een fictieve golfbreker lay-out in relatief ondiep water de totale projectkosten tijdens de geplande levensduur van een conventionele stortstenen golfbreker, een caissongolfbreker en een samengestelde golfbreker vergeleken. De totale golfbrekerlengte van deze lay-out is circa 4000 m en strekt zich uit tot in een...

Wave Energy Conversion: Theory of wave energy conversion; Wave energy converters, the state of the art; Design of a wave power converting breakwater for the Port of Bilbao, North Spain

Since the awareness that the conventional energy sources will run short, the use of various renewable energy sources has been investigated, these are solar, wind, ocean and geothennal energy. Quite some countries are interested in wave energy conversion. In several countries some full-scale wave energy converting pilot plants have been tested....