Wave basin experiments on floating breakwaters with different layouts

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 199-207

  Martinelli, Luca ^a   Ruol, Piero ^b   Zanuttigh, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experiments; Floating breakwater; Intermodule connector forces; Mooring loads; Oblique waves

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOATING BREAKWATERS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MOORING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DEGREES OF COMPLEXITY; FLOATING BREAKWATER; INTERMODULE CONNECTOR FORCES; LAYOUT COMPLEXITY; MOORING LOADS; OBLIQUE WAVES; WAVE BASINS; WAVE OBLIQUITIES;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BREAKWATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOATING STRUCTURE; MOORING SYSTEM; OBLIQUITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PADOVA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO;

EID: 59749083116     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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