TY - GEN
T1 - Performance of geogrid reinforced fill at inner layer of the rubble-mound breakwater
AU - Teymur, Berrak
AU - Oztug, Volkan
AU - Cokgor, Sevket
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - One of the most common and most conventional way to protecting a coastal area from excessive wave action is built rubble mound breakwaters. Main cost of the breakwater construction is due to the supply and transport costs of very heavy rocks from the quarries to the construction sites or built artificial blocks such as tetrapods, cubes, antifers. Usually, rubble-mound breakwaters consist of a single or double rows armor layer, one or more inner layer filled with relatively smaller size rocks, and of an impermeable core part. In this study, geogrid application in breakwaters as an inner layer and their efficiency from the stability point of view was experimentally studied. The aim of the study was to investigate the performance of geogrid as an alternative for one or two-layer inner zones in breakwaters in order to ensure an easier construction and more economical solution.
AB - One of the most common and most conventional way to protecting a coastal area from excessive wave action is built rubble mound breakwaters. Main cost of the breakwater construction is due to the supply and transport costs of very heavy rocks from the quarries to the construction sites or built artificial blocks such as tetrapods, cubes, antifers. Usually, rubble-mound breakwaters consist of a single or double rows armor layer, one or more inner layer filled with relatively smaller size rocks, and of an impermeable core part. In this study, geogrid application in breakwaters as an inner layer and their efficiency from the stability point of view was experimentally studied. The aim of the study was to investigate the performance of geogrid as an alternative for one or two-layer inner zones in breakwaters in order to ensure an easier construction and more economical solution.
KW - Armoring layer stability
KW - Geogrid
KW - Rubble-mound breakwater
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U2 - 10.5593/SGEM2013/BA1.V2/S02.069
DO - 10.5593/SGEM2013/BA1.V2/S02.069
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84890308898
SN - 9789549181876
T3 - International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM
SP - 525
EP - 532
BT - 13th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference and EXPO - Geoconference on Science and Technologies in Geology, Exploration and Mining, SGEM 2013
T2 - 13th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference and EXPO, SGEM 2013
Y2 - 16 June 2013 through 22 June 2013
ER -