A comparison of overtopping performance of different rubble mound breakwater armour

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4567-4579

  Bruce, Tom ^a   Van Der Meer, Jentsje ^b   Franco, Leopoldo ^c   Pearson, Jonathan M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INFRAM Geomatics Business Park   (Netherlands)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; BREAKWATERS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

ARMOUR UNITS; NEURAL NETWORK PREDICTIONS; ROUGHNESS FACTOR; RUBBLE MOUND BREAKWATERS; SINGLE LAYER;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84873050259     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812709554_0383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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