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Stability of Proposed Breakwater, Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana. Hydraulic Model Investigation
Six series of tests were conducted on 1:35-scale models of the proposed rubble-mound breakwater. Five test series were conducted to develop stable designs for rubble-mound type breakwaters constructed of armor layers consisting of molded tribars (test series 1) or limestone blocks (test series 2-5). The sixth series of tests was concerned with determination of the experimental shape coefficient, voids, and thickness of a cover layer consisting of two layers of random-placed limestone blocks. The principal objectives of test series 1-5 were (a) to develop a stable design that would not be unusually difficult to construct, and at the same time would make optimum use of the different sizes of stone available from the quarry; and (b) to determine the heights of waves on the harborside of the breakwater resulting from the transmission of wave energy through and over the structure. A stable design using an armor layer consisting of two layers of random-placed limestone blocks was developed for the trunk section of the proposed rubble-mound breakwater based on a design-wave height of 13 ft. (Author)
Stability of Proposed Breakwater, Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana. Hydraulic Model Investigation
Six series of tests were conducted on 1:35-scale models of the proposed rubble-mound breakwater. Five test series were conducted to develop stable designs for rubble-mound type breakwaters constructed of armor layers consisting of molded tribars (test series 1) or limestone blocks (test series 2-5). The sixth series of tests was concerned with determination of the experimental shape coefficient, voids, and thickness of a cover layer consisting of two layers of random-placed limestone blocks. The principal objectives of test series 1-5 were (a) to develop a stable design that would not be unusually difficult to construct, and at the same time would make optimum use of the different sizes of stone available from the quarry; and (b) to determine the heights of waves on the harborside of the breakwater resulting from the transmission of wave energy through and over the structure. A stable design using an armor layer consisting of two layers of random-placed limestone blocks was developed for the trunk section of the proposed rubble-mound breakwater based on a design-wave height of 13 ft. (Author)
Stability of Proposed Breakwater, Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana. Hydraulic Model Investigation
R. A. Jackson (author)
1967
78 pages
Report
No indication
English
Stability of proposed breakwater, Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
Rubble-mound breakwater wave-attenuation and stability tests, Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana
| UB Braunschweig | 1993