BREAKWATER
BREAKWATER
BREAKWATER
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DEFINITION
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CLASSIFICATION OF BREAKWATER
1. Heap or mound breakwater
– Rubble mound breakwater
– Concrete blocks mound
breakwater
– Rubble mound breakwater
supplemented by concrete
blocks
2. –Mound
Rubble mound breakwater or
superstructure
with supplemented
breakwater by patented
composite
stones
3. Upright wall
breakwater
4. –Special breakwater
Floating type
breakwater
– Hydraulic breakwater 3
SELECTION OF TYPE OF BREAKWATER
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ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF
MOUND TYPE BREAKWATER
ADVANTAGES:
• Low in initial cost of materials of
construction, equipment & labour
required.
• No preparation of foundation.
• Construction is porous or pervious,
hence no possibility of uplift.
• Construction is in pell-mell fashion,
hence no chance of slippage &
overturning.
• Construction
waves most is flexible. 1
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Limitations
• Settlement of mound takes places
for first few years by adjustment of
voids between adjacent stones &
rolling down of some stones.
• Pell mell form of mound construction
– Projections are chipped by water
– Stones becomeround & roll
down the slope producing
gap
– Makes the mound weak 14
• Requires huge quantity of
materials.
• Large quantity of materials is likely
to be wasted.
• Such construction cannot be
analyzed.
• Occupy large area of basin.
• Requires large maintenance.
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Rubble Mound break water
• TYPE I
•Here the top of core is above M.S.L (ref fig)
• Core is protected on all sides by filter and
armour layers
•TYPE II
•Here the crest level of core is kept below M.S.L
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CONCRETE BLOCK MOUND
BREAKWATER