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An Experimental Study on the Hydraulic Performance of Wave Dissipating Quay Walls (소파안벽의 수리학적 성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 김인철;이태환
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2000
  • Recently, wave dissipating structures with porosity are widely used to improve habor tranquility and to reduce the wave overtopping rate. In this study, hydraulic model tests were performed to examine hydraulic efficiency of slit caissons, igloo blocks, and hollow blocks. The model tests showed that slit caissons were the most effective in dissipating wave energy under moderate wave conditions. Slit caissons and igloo blocks showed no significant difference in reducing wave overtopping rate. Hallow blocks are less effective in reducing wave overtopping rate than slit caissons and igloo blocks lU1der higher wave energy conditions.

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Evalution for Joints of Coastal Environments Blocks (Coastal Environments 블록 적용을 위한 연결부 강도평가)

  • Kim, Chun-Ho;Kim, Kwang-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.13 no.6 s.58
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    • pp.176-182
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    • 2009
  • Other damage can occur due to the preexisting dull structure and installation of nonenvironmental-friendly concrete structure, lack of function for preventing coastal erosion. Increase of personal income and fast spread of the concept of waterfront casued the initiation of many project to improve aging coastal ports. However, none of environment-friendly structure has been developed and pre-existing solid block, igloo block, tunnel block are used commonly. In piers and lighter's wharf where the ships are mooring, resonance by the generation of a reflected wave caused by penetration wave in the port and port wave increases wave heights in the port and makes difficult to maintain the temperature, causes problems in mooring ships and cargo-working, and eventually increase the occurance of damages of the small ships by the collision. Therefore, development of new types of blcok is necessary. To apply Coastal Environments block developed for this reason, it requires allowable bearing capacity evaluation of shear key. For this study, we made test specimen for connecting part of C.E. Block, and conducted friction test of boundary surface. Data obtained by the experiment was analyzed by finite element analysis and assessed the coefficient of friction between C.E. Block and boundary surface.

An Expremental Study on Connections Friction Test of Improvement for Coastal Environment Block (Coastal Environments 블록의 개발을 위한 연결부 마찰 실험)

  • Kim, Chun-Ho;Kim, Sang-Hoonq
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.49-52
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    • 2008
  • The plain and simple shape water front structure were designed and installed for wave protection and wave resistance. But the installation of these plain and simple structure cause deficiency of environmental affinity. Also the resonance phenomena from the reflective wave and shipwave of the harbor incident wave caused high tide and wave, consequently maintaining the tranquility of inside harbor, give difficulty for mooring the ship and loading-unloading, increase the possibility of ship collision at the quray wall and landing place To solve these problems, we develop the environmentally friendly wave dissipation block. And installation efficiency, stability of the blocks through experiment of C.E Block Joint.

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