Open AccessDYNAMIC FORCES DUE TO WAVES BREAKING AT VERTICAL COASTAL STRUCTURES
Author(s) -
Hans-Werner Partenscky
Publication year - 1988
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.v21.186
Subject(s) - breakwater , breaking wave , scale (ratio) , scale model , function (biology) , geology , marine engineering , structural engineering , computer science , engineering , wave propagation , geotechnical engineering , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , aerospace engineering , evolutionary biology , biology
In the past 20 years, considerable effort has been devoted to replacing the widely used approaches of HIROI, MINIKIN, NAGAI, PLAKIDA and others /1,2,3,4/, for the design of vertical breakwaters under the impact of breaking waves, with improved and more exact calculation methods. However, almost all new theoretical and empirical approaches lacked the support of prototype measurements or test results from model measurements at a larger scale. The difference between the proposed design criteria and classical approaches is sometimes so great that engineers do not have a reliable method for the design of a vertical or composite breakwater. Figure 1 shows the resulting wave forces per unit width due to different theories as a function of the design wave height H.