Stability of a Perforated Quarter Circle Breakwater

Abstract

Many new types of breakwaters have been constructed of lateto fulfill the ever increasing demand of marine traffic. The quarter circle breakwater (QBW) is a recent type of breakwater developed on the lines of an earlier semicircular breakwater (SBW). QBW may be without perforations, seaside perforated or both sides perforated. A series of laboratory experiments were conducted in a two dimensional monochromatic wave flume on an emerged seaside perforated non-overtopping quarter circle breakwater model to study its stability against sliding. The scale of the model was 1:30. A range of incident wave heights (Hi) and wave periods (T) were generated in the flume simulating the wave climate off Mangaluru coast in the Karnataka State of India. The experimental data so collected was analyzed to understand the variation of the non-dimensional stability parameter with incident wave steepness for different values of dimensionless depth parameter In the end a nomogram was developed for computing the sliding stability of the breakwater.