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...

Detached Breakwaters and their Use in Italy

Detached (or "offshore") breakwaters of emerging type are a common and effective approach for beach protection, particularly for areas with small tidal oscillations. This kind of breakwaters aims at acting on sediment transport by decreasing the transport capacity of long-shore currents, thus locally causing settlement of sediments. Unlike...