[EN] Armor damage due to wave attack is the principal failure mode to be considered when designing conventional mound breakwaters. Armor layers of mound breakwaters are typically designed using formulas in the literature ...
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 ...
GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Herrera, Maria P.; Gonzalez-Escriva, J.A.; Medina, Josep R.(MDPI AG, 2018)
[EN] Armor stability formulas for mound breakwaters are commonly based on 2D small-scale physical tests conducted in non-overtopping and non-breaking conditions. However, most of the breakwaters built around the world are ...
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 ...
Mares Nasarre, Patricia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-10-24)
[EN] Firstly, this MSc Thesis presents an introduction about the design of mound breakwaters and analyses the evolution of their main solicitation, waves, from their generation zona until their breakage. In addition, it ...
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 ...
[EN] Sea level rise due to climate change, as well as social pressure to decrease the visual impact of coastal structures, have led to reduced crest freeboards, and this increases the overtopping hazard. In previous studies, ...
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] Armor erosion due to wave attack has been studied intensively since it is considered the main failure mode of mound breakwaters. Cube-armored mound breakwaters in depth-limited breaking wave conditions are common in ...
Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; Molines, Jorge; Medina, Josep R.(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] When mound breakwaters are placed on steep sea bottoms in combination with very shallow waters, the design of the toe berm becomes a relevant issue. Toe berms built close to the water surface on a steep sea bottom ...
[EN] Mound breakwaters are usually designed to limit the mean wave overtopping rate (q) or the maximum individual wave overtopping volume (V-max). However, rarely do studies focus on wave overtopping volumes on breakwaters ...
Mares-Nasarre, Patricia; GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Medina, Josep R.(MDPI AG, 2020-01)
[EN] The crest elevation of mound breakwaters is usually designed considering a tolerable mean wave overtopping discharge. However, pedestrian safety, characterized by the overtopping layer thickness (OLT) and the overtopping ...
[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 ...
Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-06-08)
The design of rubble mound breakwaters usually focuses on the main armor layer. A review of the existing literature reveals that different equations are used to design rock armors in non-breaking wave conditions. However, ...
[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(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-02-22)
[ES] El cambio climático y la conciencia social sobre el impacto de las infraestructuras en el medio está llevando a la necesidad de diseñar diques en talud con cotas de coronación reducidas frente a eventos de rebase más ...
Rodríguez León, Carlos(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-09-18)
[ES] El Puerto de Garachico (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España), se sitúa al Norte de la isla de Tenerife, en una zona abierta a oleajes procedentes de las direcciones NW, N y NE. La intensidad media de temporales extremos ...
Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; Medina Folgado, Josep Ramon(Elsevier, 2015-09)
The toe berm is a relevant design element when rubble mound breakwaters are built on steep sea bottoms in breaking conditions. Different design formulas can be found in the literature to predict the damage caused to submerged ...