TECHNICAL NOTES
May 1, 1985
Scaling the Weight of Breakwater Armor Units
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 111, Issue 3
Abstract
The use of the stability parameter for calculating the weights of armor units in models of rubble mound breakwaters is shown to have little justification. An alternative scaling method based on similarity criteria is developed and the results of the two methods are compared. It is shown that the use of the stability number causes little error but that this is fortuitous rather than physically meaningful.
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Markle, D. G., and Carver, R. D., “Breakwater Stability Study, Imperial Beach California,” Tech. Report H‐77‐22, U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss., Dec., 1977.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 111 • Issue 3 • May 1985
Pages: 594 - 597
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Copyright © 1985 ASCE.
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Published online: May 1, 1985
Published in print: May 1985
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James J. Sharp
Prof., Faculty of Engrg., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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