Determination of wave transmission coefficients for oyster shell bag breakwaters

Coastal Engineering Practice - Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Coastal Engineering Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 684-697

  Allen, Richard J ^a   Webb, Bret M ^a  

^a University of South Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakwaters; Coefficients

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENTS; ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW-CRESTED BREAKWATERS; OYSTER SHELL; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; TRADITIONAL MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

BREAKWATERS; EXPERIMENTS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; PUBLISHING; SHELLFISH; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); WAVE TRANSMISSION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 83655192508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41190(422)57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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