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OCEAN WAVE FORCE AGAINST A RETAINING WALL 1
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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
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
msquared48
Structural
I believe some NAFAC manuals have some of the same guidelines, but thew Corps is the best resource, I agree.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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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.
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.
bridgebuster
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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.
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