Laboratory investigation of rubble-mound breakwaters

Paper describing the development of the "Hudson formula" for the stability of armor on a breakwater.

Laboratory investigations of rubble-mound breakwaters

This paper reports on a laboratory investigation conducted at the United States Army Engineer Waterways experiment station, Vickburg, Mississippi, to determine criteria for the design and construction of rubble mound breakwaters. Small-scale breakwater sections are hand-constructed in a concrete wave flume 119 ft long, 5ft wide, 4 ft deep, and...