Quantifying and Understanding Structural Loading from Wave-Driven Debris Fields
Publication: Ports 2022
ABSTRACT
During a tsunami or storm surge event, coastal infrastructure and ports are subject to a series of disparate physical hazards that can cause significant damage and loss of life. Among these, debris impact loading during inundation events is chaotic, complex, and thus far minimally understood, especially when considering the accumulation of individual debris into a large debris field. This work provides the results of a comprehensive experimental study of the impact and subsequent damming of chaotic debris fields, including more than 400 individual trials; this scope of this paper describes the experimental design and initial analysis of wave-driven debris-induced loading for select configurations. These data include both the impact phenomena and subsequent damming by debris accumulation and find strong correlation between increasing debris field density and high impact forces. High frequency impact forces and low frequency damming signals are considered via fast Fourier transform methods. Overall trends in wave-induced debris forcing from large debris fields are presented.
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Pages: 523 - 534
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Published online: Sep 15, 2022
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