@inbook{ed8c3700a86a11da8341000ea68e967b,
title = "Hydraulic Response of Caisson Breakwaters in Multidirectional Breaking and Non-Breaking Waves",
abstract = "The present paper concerns the results and findings of a physical study on wave impacts on vertical caisson breakwaters situated in irregular, multidirectional breaking seas. The study has taken place as part of the framework programme {"}Dynamic of Structures{"} financially supported by the Danish Technical Research Council, during the period of January '97 to December '97. The tests were carried out in the 3D wave basin at the Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Aalborg University. The objective of the study was to asses the effects of wave obliquity and multidirectionality on the wave induced loading and overtopping on caisson breakwaters situated in breaking seas. Regarding the wave forces only minor differences between breaking and non breaking waves in deep water were observed, and it was found that the prediction formula of Goda also seems to apply well for multidirectionally breaking waves at deep water. The study on wave overtopping showed that the 3D wave overtopping formula suggested by Franco et al., 1995b, predicts the wave overtopping reasonable well for both non breaking and breaking waves at deep water.",
keywords = "Breaking Waves, Non-Breaking Waves, Caisson Breakwaters, Wave Overtopping, Breaking Waves, Non-Breaking Waves, Caisson Breakwaters, Wave Overtopping",
author = "J. Gr{\o}nbech and Kofoed, {Jens Peter} and Tue Hald and Burcharth, {H. F.} and Peter Frigaard",
year = "1998",
language = "English",
series = "R / Institut for Bygningsteknik",
publisher = "Dept. of Building Technology and Structural Engineering, Aalborg University",
number = "R9808",
pages = "103--115",
booktitle = "Dynamics of Structures 1993-1997",
address = "Denmark",
}