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rubble: a standalone construct

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rubble1 CONSTRUCTRubble-mound breakwaterETEMAD-SHAHIDI · 12

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Coastal engineering

A mound of rock that absorbs waves

In coastal engineering, a rubble mound is a heaped structure of quarried rock (a graded core protected by a cover layer of large armour units), and the rubble-mound breakwater built this way dissipates wave energy through the voids and weight of its stone. Etemad-Shahidi and Bali's 2012 work refined how armour stability on such a breakwater is predicted from wave height. The referent is a porous wave-resisting structure sized by hydraulic stability, a different construct from a stone wall or a broken pavement though all are made of broken rock.[1]

Unit
The stable size and weight of armour stone against a given wave climate
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Set by armour-stability formulae relating stone weight to design wave height, and by damage level and overtopping observed in physical wave-flume tests

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References

  1. Etemad-Shahidi, A., & Bali, M. (2012). Stability of rubble-mound breakwater using H50 wave height parameter. Coastal Engineering, 59(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.07.002

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