Field Experimental Study on a Soft Protecting Method for Coastal Erosion Prevention

유연재를 이용한 연안잠식방지에 대한 현장실험 연구

  • Peng, Ta-Hsiung (Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University) ;
  • Jan, Chyan-Deng (Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University)
  • Received : 2009.11.13
  • Accepted : 2010.07.25
  • Published : 2010.08.25

Abstract

The structural methods used to protect coastal erosion are usually very expensive in construction as well as in spending on maintaining the structures from damage. Those structures like embankments, breakwaters, jetties etc. are commonly constructed with concretes (rigid methods) to protect coastal erosion. But those rigid methods are not effective always, because the wave energy and impact force on the structures could not be effectively reduced by those methods. For avoiding sediment erosion on coastal areas by the way of reducing wave energy, a flexible breakwater is introduced which will reduce energy and protect coastline economically and environmentally. The flexible device is a combination of flexible wire nets and stack of rings made of used vehicle tires and soft blades on surfaces. This flexible wire net is placed in between two stacks of rings. The stack of rings is mainly used to hold the flexible wire nets and the flexible wire net is mainly used to reduce wave energy and helps to deposit sediments in coastal area. For a field experiment study, the above-mentioned flexible breakwater of coastal protection has been set up at the Shuang-Chun coastal area in Tainan County since June 10, 2009. The length of the flexible device is 50.0 meters and the height is 2.0 meters. The function of the device has been examined by Typhoon Linfa during June 19~22, 2009 and by Typhoon Morakot during August 6~10, 2009. The result shows that the flexible breakwater has effectively trapped sediments and let them deposit on coastal. The depth of sediment deposition around the device was about 0.5 to 0.8 meters.

연안잠식방지를 위해 둑이나 방파제 등의 고형의 구조물을 사용하는 것은 건설과 유지를 위해 많은 비용을 필요로 한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 파랑에너지가 효과적으로 감쇄되지 않을 경우 이들 고형 시설의 효과는 기대에 미치지 못할 수 있다. 효과적인 파랑에너지 감쇄를 통한 연안잠식 방지를 위해 경제적이고 환경친화적인 유연한 방파제를 도입하였다. 이 방파제는 폐타이어묶음과 그물망으로 이루어지는데, 폐타이어묶음은 그물망의 위치를 유지하는 역할을 하고 파랑에너지의 감쇄는 그물망을 통하여 발생한다. 현장실험을 위하여 2009년 6월 10일부터 타이완의 타이난 지역에 있는 슈앙천 해안에 상기 시설을 길이 50 m 높이 2 m로 설치하여 운용하였다. 2009년 6월 19~22일의 태풍 린파와 8월 6~10일의 태풍 모라콧의 영향 아래에서 상기 설비의 효능을 조사하였다. 설비 주위로 0.5~0.8 m의 침적이 발생하여 연안잠식 방지에 상기 설비의 효과가 긍정적인 것으로 나타났다.

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