Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022 This research investigates experimentally the effectiveness of different types of breakwaters as floating breakwaters (FB), low crested breakwaters (LCB), and piled breakwaters (PB).
Ahmed K. Elsheikh +2 more
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Enhancing Stability and Reduce Damage in Rubble-Mound Reshaping Breakwaters by Using Obstacles in Front of the Structure [PDF]
پژوهشهای زیرساختهای عمرانی, 2022 Strengthening breakwaters can reduce the damages that lead to hydraulic instability. Aiming to enhance the stability of reshaping breakwaters, this experimental study presents a method for controlling and reducing structural damages against waves by ...
Mohammad Taghi Alami +3 more
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Kapal, 2021 As one of the coastal structures, breakwaters are built to protect the coastal area against waves. The current application of breakwaters is usually conventional breakwaters, such as the rubble mound type.
Asfarur Ridlwan +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 As the technical and theoretical research of floating breakwaters is becoming increasingly mature, the floating breakwaters are now being utilized, especially in offshore reefs.
Jianting Guo +3 more
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Numerical investigation of the effect of geometric and hydrodynamic parameters of waves on the performance of rectangular floating pontoon breakwater structure [PDF]
فناوریهای پیشرفته در بهرهوری آب, 2023 Considering that pontoon breakwaters are among the most common floating breakwaters, which have many advantages over other types of fixed breakwaters, therefore, in the present study, the performance of the rectangular section of this structure under the
Mehdi Azami +2 more
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Modeling of Vertical Breakwater Wall under Bilateral Seawater Load [PDF]
Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 2019 Floating breakwaters are widely used due to their various advantages over stationary breakwaters. Lots of researches have been done on hydrodynamics and the type of bracing of these kinds of structures in recent years.
Masoud Abdolmaleki, Hamidreza Kamalan
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Floating breakwater pontoon pilot cast with carbon textile reinforcement-based ultra high durability concrete: Materials development and testing, and implementation in the North Atlantic (Irelands west coast) [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 A floating unit with three pontoons made of epoxy-coated carbon textile reinforced, ultra-high durability concrete (ECF UHDC), mineral impregnated carbon fibre-reinforced UHDC (MCF UHDC) and, as references, steel-reinforced concretes has been designed ...
Schroefl Christof +3 more
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Experimental Study of the Performance of Floating Breakwaters with Heave Motion [PDF]
Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal, 2014 Nowadays, the application of floating breakwaters in small or recreational harbors has found more popularity. These types of breakwaters are more flexible in terms of design, configuration and especially installation compared with fixed breakwaters.
Morteza Kolahdoozan +3 more
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Literature review on the hydrodynamic performance of floating breakwaters with various mooring systems [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesFloating breakwaters are among the most widely used coastal protection structures due to their flexibility, relatively low cost, and lower environmental impact than conventional rigid breakwaters.
Salman Muhammad, Sujantoko
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Coastal Engineering 1968, 1968 The general objective of this investigation is to determine the wave damping characteristics of model floating breakwaters designed to reduce incident wave heights by processes of wave reflection, wave interference, forced instability of incident waves and turbulence action.
A. Brebner, A.O. Ofuya
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