Hydrodynamic studies on vertical seawall defenced by low-crested breakwater |
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| Authors: | MG Muni Reddy S Neelamani |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600 036, India;bCoastal Engineering and Air Pollution Department, Environmental and Urban Development Division, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 24885, 13109 Safat, Kuwait |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents results obtained from a series of experiments conducted in wave flume to assess the influence of the offshore low-crested breakwater as a defence structure in reducing the wave forces on vertical seawall. The main aim of the tests was to know the effect of crest elevation of the offshore low-crested breakwater as a rehabilitation structure for the existing damaged shore protection structures. In this study five relative breakwater heights are used and associated flow evolution was analyzed. With the sections proposed in this study, it is possible to achieve considerable reduction of wave force on the seawall. Modification factor is proposed to estimate the shoreward force on the seawall defenced by low-crested breakwater. |
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| Keywords: | Low-crested breakwater Shoreward force Overtopping Submerged breakwaters Seawall Modification factor |
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