Shock pressure interactions on prototype sea dykes caused by breaking waves

This paper deals with shock pressure phenomena due to breaking waves acting on sloping faces of sea dykes and other dike revetments. The full-scale investigations were carried out in the new research facility LARGE WAVE CHANNEL in Hannover. Germany. Maximum shock pressure estimations are given for practical slopes 1:4 and 1:6. An extension of...

Laboratory investigation of impact forces

A special impact generator was constructed in order to produce water impacts with velocities which are not available in scale models with waves. The water impact was generated by a jet suddenly striking upon a measuring area. Even under same conditions of impact, stochastic scattering of the peak pressures was observed; but for all test series...