Abstract:
THE efficacy of the resistance to wave action of vertical wall breakwaters built on a rubble mound foundation has been called into question recently by reason of two unfortunate, and, in fact, structurally disastrous, incidents which have been experienced, at Catania in Sicily in March 1933 and at Algiers in North Africa in February 1934. The matter is one of fundamental importance, since quite a number of important harbours in the Mediterranean and elsewhere are protected by breakwaters of this type. It was. discussed at considerable length by (...)
THE efficacy of the resistance to wave action of vertical wall breakwaters built on a rubble mound foundation has been called into question recently by reason of two unfortunate, and, in fact, structurally disastrous, incidents which have been experienced, at Catania in Sicily in March 1933 and at Algiers in North Africa in February 1934. The matter is one of fundamental importance, since quite a number of important harbours in the Mediterranean and elsewhere are protected by breakwaters of this type. It was. discussed at considerable length by an eminent Italian engineer, Prof. E. Coen Cagli, in a lecture which he delivered lately at the Institution of Civil Engineers, a short reference to which was made in NATURE of July 20, p. 99. (Read More)
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