Breaking wave loads at vertical seawalls and breakwaters

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-439

  Cuomo, Giovanni ^a,b   Allsop, William ^a,c   Bruce, Tom ^d   Pearson, Jonathan ^e  

^a HR Wallingford ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b HAREC srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caisson breakwaters; Impulsive loads; Pressure impulse; Seawalls; Wave breaking; Wave impacts

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BARCELONA; BREAKING WAVES; DATA SETS; EXISTING METHOD; IMPACT FORCE; IMPACT WAVES; IMPULSIVE LOADS; OVERTURNING MOMENT; PHYSICAL MODEL TEST; PRESSURE IMPULSE; QUASI-STATIC; TEST CONDITION; TIME VARIATIONS; VERTICAL SEAWALL; VIOLENT OVERTOPPING BY WAVES AT SEAWALLS; WAVE IMPACTS; WAVE LOAD; WAVEBREAKING;

BREAKWATERS; CAISSONS; FORECASTING; FOUNDATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PRESSURE VESSELS; RETAINING WALLS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BREAKWATER; CAISSON; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLUME EXPERIMENT; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTOPPING; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA WALL; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 77149149055     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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