Print Email Facebook Twitter Set-up to design guidance for the Crablock armour unit Title Set-up to design guidance for the Crablock armour unit Author Bonfantini, F. Contributor Van der Meer, J.W. Dastgheib, A. Corporate name TU Delft Project Crablock Date 2014-09-26 Abstract The Crablock is a symmetrical unit, this in contrast to the units that have been applied most in the past. Essentially, this is the main difference. All other units have six obstacles that insure interlocking, but they are not symmetrical. All those units are placed randomly in a certain way with more or less contacts to neighbouring units. A symmetrical unit may give the opportunity to place the units in a more or less rectangular pattern. This may ease the construction requirements. It may also have influence on stability, where the expectation is that it could be more stable than a random placement. Uniform placement may, however, increase the packing density (number of units per square meter) and/or wave overtopping. But at least one can say that the Crablock can distinguish itself from the well-known units by the symmetrical shape. The main objectives of this report are: 1) outline the recommendations for a fast and efficient approach to come to a design guidance; 2) establish what design parameters are most important for the new single layer armour unit investigation, such as the placing pattern, the crest height, the settlement, etc. 3) identify what kind of tests should be done for Crablock in a wave flume. Subject Crablockarmour unitbreakwater Classification TPG110120 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:312e6c4b-aac5-4720-98b7-d45e4df56752 Publisher Unesco-IHE Source Unesco-IHE student report Part of collection Hydraulic Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c) 2014 Flavia Bonfantini Files PDF Report_September_2014_Bon ... antini.pdf 954.81 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:312e6c4b-aac5-4720-98b7-d45e4df56752/datastream/OBJ/view