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Impact of Flow-Driven Debris on Coastal Structure During Tsunami Bore
Abstract Tsunami impact on infrastructure along the coast causes severe destruction, loss of human lives and negative influence on the economy. When tsunami propagates towards the coastline, the flow often resembles a bore which propagates with a high velocity and takes everything on its way, including heavy objects. When reaching the structure, this water-driven debris induces a kind of impact force and magnifies the load on structures along the coast. The present study is aimed to measure the load of tsunami-borne debris on a building constructed near the shoreline. In many situations, tsunami or any flood nearshore resembles a surge caused by a dam-break event; therefore, to model this process, we conducted our experiments by setting up a dam-break arrangement in a wave flume of 72.5 m length, 2 m wide and 2.5 m deep at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, India. A Froude scale of 1:20 was adopted for modelling the coastal structure and the debris placed over a beach slope of 1:30. The hydraulic bore was generated by a sudden opening of the gate of the tank. We considered three water depths of 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 m. The debris was modelled as a box-shaped structure weighing 4.2, 5.6 and 6.0 kg. A video camera was used to capture the surging of the hydraulic bore and to study the character of debris motion during impact. The impact forces acting on the structure due to debris were measured with a load cell. The acquired data were further analysed and discussed.
Impact of Flow-Driven Debris on Coastal Structure During Tsunami Bore
Abstract Tsunami impact on infrastructure along the coast causes severe destruction, loss of human lives and negative influence on the economy. When tsunami propagates towards the coastline, the flow often resembles a bore which propagates with a high velocity and takes everything on its way, including heavy objects. When reaching the structure, this water-driven debris induces a kind of impact force and magnifies the load on structures along the coast. The present study is aimed to measure the load of tsunami-borne debris on a building constructed near the shoreline. In many situations, tsunami or any flood nearshore resembles a surge caused by a dam-break event; therefore, to model this process, we conducted our experiments by setting up a dam-break arrangement in a wave flume of 72.5 m length, 2 m wide and 2.5 m deep at the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, India. A Froude scale of 1:20 was adopted for modelling the coastal structure and the debris placed over a beach slope of 1:30. The hydraulic bore was generated by a sudden opening of the gate of the tank. We considered three water depths of 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 m. The debris was modelled as a box-shaped structure weighing 4.2, 5.6 and 6.0 kg. A video camera was used to capture the surging of the hydraulic bore and to study the character of debris motion during impact. The impact forces acting on the structure due to debris were measured with a load cell. The acquired data were further analysed and discussed.
Impact of Flow-Driven Debris on Coastal Structure During Tsunami Bore
Harish, S. (author) / Sriram, V. (author) / Sundar, V. (author) / Sannasiraj, S. A. (author) / Didenkulova, I. (author)
2018-12-31
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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