Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015
Sliding and Floating of Wooden Houses Due to Storm Surge and Waves
Publication: Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
ABSTRACT
Eight tests in a wave flume with a sand beach were performed in order to examine the reaction of ten wooden blocks (idealized houses) on the foreshore and berm as well as on short and long pilings. The still water level was varied to create accretional and erosional profile changes on the foreshore and berm. The cross-shore wave transformation on the beach and the wave overtopping and overwash of the berm were measured in 71 runs of irregular waves where each run lasted 400 s. The initial block elevation above the sand surface is shown to have little effect on the hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and profile evolution in this experiment with widely-spaced blocks. The block floating and sliding on the sand surface and the block falling from the pilings depended partly on the block elevation above the still water level but on the swash hydrodynamics and block clearance above the foreshore and berm whose profile varied during each test.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
During a 9-month Ph.D. study at the University of Delaware, X. Chavez Cardenas was supported by the Mexican Scholarship Program CONACYT. This study was partially supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under Cooperative Agreement No. W912HZ-15-2-0028.
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Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
Pages: 774 - 786
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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© 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jul 11, 2017
Published in print: Jul 11, 2017
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