Conceptual design of rubble mound breakwaters
van der Meer, J.W. (1995). Conceptual design of rubble mound breakwaters, in: Liu, P.L.-F. (Ed.) Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 1: pp. 221-314 In: Liu, P.L.-F. (Ed.) (1995). Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering . Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 1. World Scientific: Singapore. 328 pp., more In: Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering. World Scientific: Singapore. ISSN 0219-4880, more |
| Abstract | This paper first gives an overall view of physical processes involved with rubble mound structures and a classification of these structures. Governing parameters are described as hydraulic parameters (related to waves, wave run-up and run-down, overtopping, transmission and reflection) and as structural parameters (related to waves, rock, cross-section and response of the structure). The description of hydraulic response is divided into:
• wave run-up and run-down,
• wave overtopping,
• wave transmission,
• wave reflection.
The main part of the paper describes the structural response (stability) which is divided into:
• rock armor layers,
• armor layers with concrete units,
• underlayers, filters, toe protection and head,
• low-crested structures,
• berm breakwaters.
The description of hydraulic and structural response is given in design formulas or graphs which can be used for a conceptual design of rubble mound structures. |
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