Overtopping of coastal structures by tsunami waves
Miguel Esteban (University of Tokyo)
Toni Glasbergen
Tomoyuki Takabatake (Waseda University)
Bas Hofland (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Shinsaku Nishizaki (Waseda University)
Yuta Nishida (Waseda University)
Jacob Stolle (University of Ottawa)
Ioan Nistor (University of Ottawa)
Jeremy Bricker (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Hiroshi Takagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tomoya Shibayama (Waseda University)
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Abstract
Following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japanese tsunami protection guidelines stipulate that coastal defences should ensure that settlements are shielded from the coastal inundation that would result from Level 1 tsunami events (with return periods in the order of about 100 years). However, the overtopping mechanism and leeward inundation heights of tsunami bores as they hit coastal structures has received little attention in the past. To ascertain this phenomenon, the authors conducted physical experiments using a dam-break mechanism, which could generate bores that overtopped different types of structures. The results indicate that it is necessary to move away from only considering the tsunami inundation height at the beach, and also consider the bore velocity as it approaches the onshore area. The authors also prepared a simple, conservative method of estimating the inundation height after a structure of a given height, provided that the incident bore velocity and height are known.
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