Print Email Facebook Twitter Void porosity measurements in coastal structures Title Void porosity measurements in coastal structures Author Bosma, C. Verhagen, H.J. D'Angremond, K. Sint Nicolaas, W. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2002-01-01 Abstract The paper describes the use of two fundamental design parameters, the void porosity and layer thickness in rock armour constructions. These design parameters are very sensible for factors such as the boundary definition of a rock layer, rock production properties, intrinsic properties and construction properties. Differences in the value of the design parameter cause a considerable (financial) risk. This risk contains two directions, the first is the affection on the hydraulic performance of the structure and the second is its relation with materials procurement. This paper describes and investigates the second risk for the contractor: the large margin in the calculation of the void porosity, which influences the amount of rock (in weight). Often this risk is on account of the contractor, so it is necessary to have better insight in these values in order to reduce the financial risk. Focus is on the variation of the porosity at the bottom, at the top and at the transition between two layers of graded material. This has resulted in correction coefficients for the layer thickness, as well as for the computation of the void porosity as a basis for payment by the client. Subject filtersporosityvoid ratiobed protection To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7265dcc-b86d-422f-b73c-43e2cb81ec58 Publisher American Society of Civil Engineers Source Coastal Engineering 2002: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference, 7-12 July 2002, Cardiff, Wales Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2002 TU Delft Files PDF icce2002-3.pdf 489.63 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c7265dcc-b86d-422f-b73c-43e2cb81ec58/datastream/OBJ/view