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The effect of waves on rubble-mound structures
CaltechAUTHORS
| Field | Value |
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| Relation | https://authors.library.caltech.edu/315/ https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:RAIarfm75 CaltechAUTHORS:RAIarfm75 10.1146/annurev.fl.07.010175.001551 |
| Title | The effect of waves on rubble-mound structures |
| Creator | Raichlen, Fredric |
| Subject | Caltech Library Services |
| Description | For thousands of years breakwaters have been built at or near the coast to protect harbors or coastlines from wave attack. One of the earliest known harbor protection schemes was devised in about 2000 B.C. for the Port of Pharos on the open coast of Egypt; it had a rubble-mound breakwater approximately 8500 ft long composed of large blocks of stone with smaller stone filling the spaces between blocks (Savile 1940). Until the development of experimental laboratory techniques to investigate... |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews |
| Date | 1975-01 |
| Type | Article PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | en |
| Rights | other |
| Identifier | https://authors.library.caltech.edu/315/1/RAIarfm75.pdf Raichlen, Fredric (1975) The effect of waves on rubble-mound structures. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 7 . pp. 327-356. ISSN 0066-4189. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.07.010175.001551. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:RAIarfm75 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:RAIarfm75> |
