Open AccessFORCES ON A PONTOON IN THREE DIMENSIONAL WAVES
Author(s) -
John Eie,
A. Tratterberg,
Alf Tørum
Publication year - 1970
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.v12.101
Subject(s) - breakwater , geology , marine engineering , structural engineering , engineering , acoustics , physics , geotechnical engineering
Wave forces on a long pontoon (floating breakwater, floating bridges etc.) depend to a large extent on the three dimensional wave pattern. There is no deterministic method for calculating wave forces for such structures in a three dimensional sea and laboratory equipment for testing long structures in irregular three dimensional waves does hardly exist.