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OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

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What force whould I use for ocean and current waves during a hurricane, lets say for the various categories of hurricanes. I am designing a retaining wall along a stretch of beach in the New York area. Is this force given in any code.

RE: OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

EM1110-2-1614
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Engineering and Design of Coastal Revetments

Hudson, R.Y. 1961
Wave forces on rubble mound breakwaters and jetties
miscellaneous paper 2-453
US Army engineer Waterways Experiment Station

ISBN 978-3-8042-1064-6
Eurotop,
Wave Overtopping of Sea Defences and Related Structures: Assessment Manual

TC223 A53 1977
U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center
3rd Edition Shore Protection Manual

RE: OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

I believe some NAFAC manuals have some of the same guidelines, but thew Corps is the best resource, I agree.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

RE: OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

to elaborate
the force is not given in a code, you will nead a hydraulic engineer to do a wave analysis. they will give you design wave height and period. Suggest for a concrete seawall in New York designed to withstand hurricane you should use H1 or greater. from that you can design runup and estimate the force and overtopping elevation. Again, I would design for no overtopping. for a seawall on the beach without a breakwater, the storm surge and wave height and overtopping elevation will be very high.

RE: OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

The. COE also has an ice manual that we used for a sea wall design along the East River, just in case you have to consider ice.

RE: OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL

How about ASCE 7. It's Section 5.4.4.2 in 7-05.

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