Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015
Force Measurements on Storm Walls Due to Overtopping Waves: A Middle-Scale Model Experiment
Publication: Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
ABSTRACT
The so-called post-overtopping processes are of wide interest for coastal engineers. Dedicated middle-scale tests have been carried out to measure impacts of an overtopped wave on a storm wall at low freeboard coastal structures. A smooth dike slope and a vertical wall, both with a promenade at crest level and a storm wall at the end of it, have been tested in a scale of 1/6. Impacts have been measured both with pressure and force transducers; the two systems provided similar results. A correlation between the hydraulic conditions and the wave impacts on the storm wall is proposed. Further analysis is ongoing to also include the post-overtopping characteristics to increase insight on the acting parameters in this process.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work has been supported by European Community's Seventh Framework Program through the grant to the budget of the Integrating Activity HYDRALAB IV within the Transnational Access Activities, Contract no. 261520.
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Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
Pages: 650 - 660
Editors: Louise Wallendorf, U.S. Naval Academy and Daniel T. Cox, Ph.D., Oregon State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8030-4
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Published online: Jul 11, 2017
Published in print: Jul 11, 2017
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