Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015
Breakwater Innovation Design Using a Geotextile Tube as a Core
Publication: Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the development of an innovative design to adopt geotextile tubes as core in a concrete Core-Loc breakwater. The concept was considered as both a valuable engineering exercise (cost and time saving) to take advantage of abundance of both dredged material and volcanic sand at the remote project site. The paper details the number of design challenges that were considered through the breakwater’s design development and 2D physical modelling study. A comparison is then presented between the geotextile tube breakwater and a traditional breakwater of rock core, with resulting conclusions and recommendations.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The authors would like to express their appreciation to the Government of Montserrat for their support. The authors are particularly grateful to Maccuri and TenCate for their valuable support and advice. Thanks also goes to Professor H Oumeraci of Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, and Dr J. Fowler of Geotec Associates, for his valuable paper and advice. Finally, we are also grateful for our colleagues Dr Songtao Yang, Dr Say-chong Lee, Dr Bayram Attila, Dr Luce Bassetti and Dr Yang Zhang for assisting us on the development of the project.
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Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
Pages: 787 - 798
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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