The roughness factor (γf) is a parameter used in overtopping estimators to account for the effects of armor unit geometry, the number of layers in the armor and other structural characteristics. Different values of γf for ...
Molines, Jorge; Medina, Josep R.(Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, 2019-10-02)
[EN] Mound breakwaters usually have a concrete crown wall to reduce the amount of quarry
material and to improve accessibility. Popular methods to design crown walls consider the same value
of the horizontal pressure in ...
Medina Folgado, Josep Ramon; Vidal, César(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-08-04)
[ES] Se describe la evolución de las técnicas de diseño de los diques rompeolas y de algunos equipos y técnicas constructivas que los han impulsado. Se analiza sobre todo la influencia de las investigaciones teóricas y de ...
Molines, Jorge; Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; Medina, Josep R.(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] In this study, seven input variables are used to estimate wave forces on the crown wall, and explanatory variables are ranked using neural network techniques. 274 small-scale 2D tests, including both wave overtopping ...
Molines, Jorge; Medina, Josep R.(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)
Based on the Crest Level Assessment of Coastal Structures (CLASH) Neural Network Overtopping prediction method, a new 16-parameter overtopping estimator (Q6) was developed for conventional mound breakwaters with crown ...
[EN] Background literature on the influence of parapets on the overtopping of mound breakwaters is limited. In this study, numerical tests were conducted using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to analyze the influence ...
[EN] The influence of parapets on crown walls of mound breakwaters on wave forces has not been extensively analyzed in the literature. In this study, numerical experiments were carried out using the open-source platform ...
Mares-Nasarre, Patricia; van Gent, Marcel R.A.(MDPI AG, 2020-01-28)
[EN] Rubble mound breakwaters usually present a crest wall to increase the crest freeboards without a large increase of the consumption of material. Methods in the literature to design crest walls are based on estimates ...
Molines Llodra, Jorge(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-04-05)
[EN] The influence of the type of armor on wave overtopping on mound breakwaters is usually represented by the roughness factor. However, different values of roughness factor for the same armor unit are given in the ...