Wave action on rubble mound breakwaters: The problem of scale effects

The present report, produced within the framework of the EU funded project DELOS, attempts to recognise and analyse main scale effects in the physical modeHing of rubble mound breakwaters used in offshore and coastal engineering. Scale effects appear in physical modeHing because the ratios between the farces of interest, as present in prototype,...

Engineering Design Guidance for Detached Breakwaters as Shoreline Stabilization Structures

This report summarizes and presents design knowledge for both the functional and structural design of detached breakwaters for shoreline stabilization. Functional design of break:waters in the United States relies on a significant amount of engineering judgement, data from a few existing breakwater projects for comparison, and an understanding...

MAST G6-S Coastal structures: Proceedings of the final overall workshop

These proceedings describes the progress and results of the MAST I research project "G6-S Coastal Structures', which has addressed the techniques available for the analysis and design of coastal and harbour structures such as sea walls, revetments, and breakwaters. They sumrnarise the information collected and developments completed under the...

Mound Breakwaters under Wave Attack

Research on rubble mound breakwaters when confronted with waves. The rapport covers the flow characteristics and mound stability under regular waves and under oblique wave attack. The authors find a formula for rough, permeable slopes, flow characteristics under the action of a regular wave train by a function of the type. Furthermore they...

SCALE EFFECT TESTS FOR RUBBLE-MOUND BREAKWATERS: Hydraulic Model Investigation

Laboratory investigations conducted by and for the Waterways Experiment Station under ES 815, "Stability of Rubble-Mound Breakwaters," determined the relative importance of the different variables with respect to the stability of rubble-mound breakwaters and formulated design criteria for those structures. In ES 815, test-wave dimensions, water...

Classification des digues

Development of a formula for the stability of rubble mound breakwaters.