Reshaping breakwater tests, additional tests

Tests have been performed with low steepness and reshaping breakwaters at Ghent University and Aalborg University respectively. The reshaping breakwater is a type of breakwater where the information on overtopping is very limited. The additional tests are described in the following four reports: .. D24 – Part A: Effect of obliqueness, short...

Berm breakwater structures: Final report: Research summary

A research project on berm breakwater structures was carried out with the overall objective of arriving at a better design basis. Eight European organisations from Denmark, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Italy and Iceland participated in the joint research project co-sponsored by the European Commission under the second research and...

Berm breakwaters: Hydraulic response of roundheads and trunks exposed to oblique waves

As a part of the MAST II Berm Breakwater Structures, existing data from conducted laboratory tests have been reanalised. The objective was to evaluate the effect of the longshore transpsort on both the roundhead and trunk, the ht.u,er exposed to both head-on waves and oblique inegular waves varying from 15 to 30 degrees angle of incidence. 3...

On the stability of berm breakwaters roundheads and trunk erosion of oblique waves

The stability of a berm type breakwater (sacrificial breakwater) was tested in a 3-dimensional model at rhe Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of civil Engineering, university of Aalborg. The object was to study the stability/erosion of the breakwater head and the trunk, the latter exposed to both head-on and oblique irregular waves. To avoid too...