Self-adjusting breakwater for artificial harbors

Details Self-adjusting breakwater for artificial harbors Self-adjusting breakwater for artificial harbors

1984-09-27

1987-09-08

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

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Float structure

114266, 405 26, 405 63, 405 68, E02B 306

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046916610

ABSTRACT:
An artificial breakwater which dynamically changes shape and thus absorbs both surface and undersurface wave energy with varying wave height. The breakwater elements are flexible and extensible walled bags of which a major part is to be submerged below the surface of the sea. At least one anchor is fixed by a cable to the bottom of the bag. The bag is filled mostly with water and partly by air, whereby at least part of the air filled portion extends above the surface of the sea. The flexibility and extensibility of the bag is such that in the presence of waves its vertical dimension increases or reduces, thereby impeding transmission of wave energy at and below the surface.

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