Print Email Facebook Twitter Hydrodynamic load on the building caused by overtopping waves Title Hydrodynamic load on the building caused by overtopping waves Author Chen, X. Hassan, W. Uijttewaal, W. Verwaest, T. Verhagen, H.J. Suzuki, T. Jonkman, S.N. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-07-01 Abstract Wide crested dike can reduce the kinetic energy of the overtopping wave and make the overtopping wave to flow back to the seaside. If a coastal town were built on or near a dike, the overtopping wave running on the dike crest generates the force which can affect the buildings located in its path. However, quantifying the hydrodynamic load on the building caused by overtopping waves is not straightforward because little empirical formulas are given in literature for this kind of configuration. Therefore, physical scale model research was carried out. The purpose of this research is to come up with a relationship describing the force on a vertical wall exerted by the overtopping wave as a function of wave parameters and geometrical characteristics. Subject overtopping wavehydrodynamic loadvertical wallwide crested dike To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bd5e6a16-d8f1-494a-b765-4fc4e8a984ed Publisher Coastal Engineering Research Council ISSN 2156-1028 Source ICCE 2012: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Santander, Spain, 1-6 July 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s)Creative Commons BY Files PDF Chen_2012.pdf 780.9 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bd5e6a16-d8f1-494a-b765-4fc4e8a984ed/datastream/OBJ/view