OVERTOPPING OF SLOPE BREAKWATERS

Results of laboratory tests to determine the conditions of overtopping of rubble-mound breakwaters are presented. The tests were conducted to investigate the influence of the crest width on the beginning of overtopping, defined as the situation in which the water resulting from the incoming wave washes the crest, reaching, in the limit, the crest's inner edge. Porous, rough quarry-stone breakwater sections were tested in a wave flume. The paper concerns breakwaters without curtain-wall.

• Corporate Authors:

  Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses

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  1040 Brussels,   Belgium 
• Authors:
  • Vera-Cruz, D
• Conference:
  • Permanent Intl Assn of Navigation Congresses Bull
• Publication Date: 1972

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 97-105
• Serial:
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 12

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Breakwaters; Overtopping; Wave height
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046603
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1973 12:00AM