Molines, Jorge; Herrera, Maria P.; GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Medina, Josep R.(Elsevier, 2019-07)
[EN] Conventional mound breakwaters are usually designed to withstand low mean wave overtopping discharges and a low proportion of overtopping waves (P-ow). Existing formulas to estimate P-ow, and maximum individual wave ...
GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Medina, Josep R.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014-01)
This paper describes the heterogeneous packing (HEP) failure mode of breakwater armor. HEP reduces packing density in the armor layer near and above the mean water level and increases packing density below it. With HEP, ...
Pardo de Gregorio, Vicente; Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; Molines Llodra, Jorge; Medina Folgado, Josep Ramon(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)
Although little attention is usually given to the armor porosity and armor randomness of randomly placed concrete armor units in mound breakwaters, significant model effects may occur if armor porosity and randomness are ...