Pore Pressure Measurements Inside Rubble Mound Breakwaters

The present paper presents pore pressure measurements from large scale model tests performed at the Large Wave Channel, Hannover, Germany and small scale model test performed at the Hydraulic & Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Aalborg University, Denmark. Information on pore pressure attenuation and wave damping in the core and important for the scaling of core materials in small scale hydraulic models. The main objectives are to study and examine the wave damping in the core of rubble mound breakwater models. the acquired test results are compared with results available from the literature, and compared to a damping model presented by Burcharth et al. (1999). Reasonable agreement is found when considering the difference in the grading and uniformity of the model core materials. Comparison between results obtained from small and large scale model tests showed no clear evidence of scale effects.