Print Email Facebook Twitter Rocking revisited 4 Title Rocking revisited 4: Analysis of rocking-induced stresses for concrete breakwater armour units Author Goud, Thomas (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Contributor Hofland, Bas (mentor) Antonini, Alessandro (graduation committee) Korswagen Eguren, Paul (graduation committee) Rots, Jan (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Civil Engineering | Structural Engineering Date 2020-01-24 Abstract When a breakwater is under heavy wave attack, the concrete armour units will occasionally move, causing a collision between two concrete armour units. This process is called rocking, and induces stresses in the concrete, that may lead to breakage of the concrete armour units. This MSc Thesis provides a probabilistic method to predict breakage of concrete armour units, focussed on Xbloc®. The impact velocity is based on the forces on a unit under wave attack. This impact velocity is used as input to determine the impact force, based on an energy balance. The stresses at a critical location in armour unit will then be determined from a strut-and-tie model. With an estimation of the distribution of several stochastic variables, the eventual result is a probabilistic prediction of breakage of the concrete armour units. Subject breakwaterconcrete armour unitMonte Carlo simulationProbability of failureimpact velocityimpact forcestress To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f2613769-08af-404a-b1a0-1d076318edcd Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2020 Thomas Goud Files PDF MSc_thesis_report_Thomas_ ... ersion.pdf 4.52 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f2613769-08af-404a-b1a0-1d076318edcd/datastream/OBJ/view