Performance of pile-restrained flexible floating breakwaters

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 243-255

  Diamantoulaki, Ioanna ^a   Angelides, Demos C ^a   Manolis, George D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breakwater effectiveness; Breakwater response; Fluid structure interaction; Hydroelasticity; Pile restrained flexible floating breakwaters; Structural stiffness

Indexed keywords

BENDING MODES; BERNOULLI; FLEXIBLE BEAM; FLOATING BODIES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INCIDENT WAVES; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RIGID BODY; STRUCTURAL STIFFNESS; VERTICAL PILES; WAVE FREQUENCIES;

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FLOATING BREAKWATERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROELASTICITY; PILES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

BREAKWATER; FLOATING STRUCTURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROELASTICITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STIFFNESS; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 65649124506     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2009.03.004     Document Type: Review

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