Open AccessWAVE PRESSURES ON SLIT-TYPE BREAKWATERS
Author(s) -
Shoshichiro Nagai,
Shohachi Kakuno
Publication year - 1978
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.v16.142
Subject(s) - breakwater , slit , type (biology) , geology , mechanics , physics , materials science , geotechnical engineering , optics , paleontology
For severe storm waves with periods of 7.0 sec to 14.0 sec and heights of 6.3 m to 9.0 m, it was proved that the resultants of the maximum simultaneous pressures exerted by breaking waves on the slit-type breakwaters with the optimum relative chamber width of 1/L = 0.05 to 0.07 were in most cases less than 70 per cent of those exerted on the conventional composite-type breakwaters.