DESIGNING BERM BREAKWATERS FOR DIFFERENT WAVE HEIGHTS AND DIFFERENT QUARRY YIELD
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Keywords

breakwater design
berm breakwater
geometrical design

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Sigurdarson, S., & van der Meer, J. (2017). DESIGNING BERM BREAKWATERS FOR DIFFERENT WAVE HEIGHTS AND DIFFERENT QUARRY YIELD. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(35), structures.33. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.structures.33

Abstract

The paper demonstrates the use of the geometrical design rules for berm breakwaters in a potential project in Greenland. With practically no information about the sizes of armourstone that could be used for the design, the initial phase of the study looked at the full range of the stability parameter Hs/Î"Dn50 of 1.7 to 3.0 for the design wave height of Hs=4.4 m. This corresponds to armourstone classes ranging from 5-15 t down to 1-3 t. Six different design options based on six different options for the largest stone class are compared. The final design then relies on the actual quarry yield, the total volume of material needed for the project and the construction equipment that can be brought to the site.
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