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How to Build a Floating Scrap Tire Breakwater
This report explains how scrap tires can be used by marinas to construct breakwaters at the cost per linear foot ranging from $4 to $30. Tests performed on a prototype showed that it could reduce by 75 percent the wave heights of 3- to 4-foot waves, and by up to 100 percent the height of 1/2-foot waves. Besides low costs, these breakwaters present other advantages. They can be used where surface-to-bottom breakwaters are not feasible, they are movable, and they use a resource which is readily available at very low cost.
How to Build a Floating Scrap Tire Breakwater
This report explains how scrap tires can be used by marinas to construct breakwaters at the cost per linear foot ranging from $4 to $30. Tests performed on a prototype showed that it could reduce by 75 percent the wave heights of 3- to 4-foot waves, and by up to 100 percent the height of 1/2-foot waves. Besides low costs, these breakwaters present other advantages. They can be used where surface-to-bottom breakwaters are not feasible, they are movable, and they use a resource which is readily available at very low cost.
How to Build a Floating Scrap Tire Breakwater
T. Kowalski (author) / N. Ross (author)
1975
17 pages
Report
No indication
English
Solid Wastes Pollution & Control , Marine Engineering , Civil Engineering , Breakwaters , Harbor structures , Tires , Solid waste disposal , Reclamation , Coastal engineering , Scrap , Marinas , Cost estimates , Design , Prototypes , Floating bodies , Waste recycling , Tire recycling , Sea Grant program
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