Crown Wall Parapet Failure after a Severe Wave Storm — Isle of Alboran, Mediterranean Sea
by Vicente Negro, (Assist. Prof., E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), Ovidio Varela, (Assist. Prof., E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), Javier Díez, (Prof., E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), and Gregorio Iglesias, (Assist. Prof., E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad de A Coruña)
pp. 1225-1236, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40733(147)101)
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Conference Proceeding Paper |
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Coastal Structures 2003 |
| Abstract: |
In 2000 a vertical breakwater was completed to shelter the small army harbour on the Isle of Alborán, a small island in the Sea of the same name, halfway between Southeastern Spain and Morocco. In November 2001, a severe storm swept the Alborán Sea. This paper deals with the effects of the storm, the behavior of the vertical breakwater, the damage to the parapet, and the proposed solutions |
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