Hydraulic and earth engineering – Bank – shore – or bed protection – Wave or flow dissipation
Patent
1986-12-01
1988-11-15
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Bank, shore, or bed protection
Wave or flow dissipation
405 15, 405 30, 405107, E02B 300
Patent
active
047845201
ABSTRACT:
A system and apparatus for protecting a shoreline from erosion, damage, flooding and the like from fluctuations in the water level in various bodies of water such as lakes, rivers, oceans and the like and for quickly and efficiently closing a breach in a levee, dam or other water containment barrier and includes a series of watertight, hollow fabricated structures that can be quickly filled with various materials for retaining the hollow structures in a desired position. The hollow structures are relatively lightweight and can be easily transported to a use site by various transportation modes. The system and apparatus also includes a mat closure device to close gaps between adjacent ends of the hollow structures to provide a continuous barrier. Each of the structures are generally triangular in cross-sectional configuration having top and back corner edges formed as a radius and the front corner facing the water being formed as an acute angle to minimize cavitation and undermining due to wave action, current action or the like. The system and apparatus also has utility in building highway bridges by enabling relatively simplified highway bridge abutment structures to be formed.
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