Open Access'STABIT'- A NEW ARMOUR BLOCK
Author(s) -
Karamjot Singh
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v11.52
Subject(s) - armour , breakwater , block (permutation group theory) , harbour , forensic engineering , scale (ratio) , engineering , casting , engineering drawing , marine engineering , geology , computer science , civil engineering , geotechnical engineering , materials science , mathematics , cartography , geometry , geography , composite material , layer (electronics) , programming language
There are a number of specially shaped concrete armour units in use today. The Stabit is one of them and was first developed m I96I for use on the reconstruction of breakwaters at Benghazi Harbour, Libya. This paper describes the development of Stabits and gives the technical details relating to their use. The subjects covered include full scale and model tests, stability coefficients, wave run-up, coverage, placing patterns, moulds, casting, handling and placing.