Novel technique to mitigate the earthquake-induced damage of rubble mound breakwater

PK Akarsh, B Chaudhary, MK Sajan, B Sah… - Geotextiles and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In past, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan
earthquake had caused collapse of many breakwaters due to failure of their foundations …

The impact of submerged breakwaters on sediment distribution along marsh boundaries

I Vona, MW Gray, W Nardin - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human encroachment and development on coastlines have led to greater amounts of
armoring of shorelines. Breakwaters are a common feature along coastlines, which are used …

Experimental modeling of wave load on a pile-supported wharf with pile breakwater

J Huang, G Chen - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
A hybrid structure of pile-supported wharf connecting with pile breakwater is tested in a
flume with a scale factor of 1: 30. Based on generating regular and irregular waves and …

Quantitative assessment of the shoreline protection performance of geotextile sandbags at an in-situ coastal experimental station

Y Li, ZJ You, Y Ma, B Ren - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2023 - Elsevier
The coast of China is periodically impacted by tropical cyclones and storm surges, and has
experienced significant coastal erosion problems. Traditional “hard engineering” coastal …

Physical model studies on damage and stability analysis of breakwaters armoured with geotextile sand containers

T Elias, KG Shirlal, EV Kajal - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2021 - Elsevier
Harnessing the advantages of geotextile sand containers (GSCs), numerous submerged
breakwaters and shoreline protection structures have been constructed worldwide. But an …

Preliminary investigation on stability and hydraulic performance of geotextile sand container breakwaters filled with sand and cement

T Elias, KG Shirlal - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Breakwaters are essential constructions providing tranquility to ports and harbour structures,
when there is a lack of natural protection measures. Traditionally these massive structures …

Evolution of bed-forms due to associated wave turbulence over a sloping sand bed similar to shoaling zone of sea coast–An experimental approach

K Mondal, S Chaudhuri, VK Das, K Debnath… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents the impact of near-bed turbulence due to only waves on a sediment bed
to analyze the bedform evolutions and formation of ripples over a sloping bed of fine …

Experimental investigation on sea ripple evolution over sloping beaches

C Petrotta, C Faraci, P Scandura, E Foti - Ocean Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
This paper reports on a wave flume experimental campaign carried out to investigate the
appearance, the growth and the migration of small scale bedforms on a sloping sandy bed …

Wave-induced oscillatory flow over a sloping rippled bed

C Faraci, P Scandura, C Petrotta, E Foti - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the findings of an experimental analysis aimed at investigating the flow
generated by waves propagating over a fixed rippled bed within a wave flume are reported …

[HTML][HTML] Calibration of CFD numerical model for the analysis of a combined caisson

C Iuppa, L Carlo, E Foti, C Faraci - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this work is the calibration of a numerical model for simulating the interaction
of waves with a composite caisson having an internal rubble mound to dissipate incident …