Typical failures of composite breakwaters in Japan

Coastal Engineering 2000 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2000

Volumn 276, Issue , 2000, Pages 1899-1910

  Takahashi, Shigeo ^a   Shimosako, Ken Ichiro ^b   Kimura, Katsutoshi ^c   Suzuki, Kojiro ^a  

^a Port and Harbour Research Institute   (Japan)

^b Port and Harbour Res Inst   (Japan)

^c MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE BREAKWATER; CONCRETE CAISSONS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEAVY STORMS; ROUGH SEAS; RUBBLE MOUND FOUNDATION; STORM WAVES; VERTICAL WALL;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STORMS;

BREAKWATERS;

EID: 57449119544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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