Rock

catalog of natural
coastal protection
units


Year n.a.
Inventor n.a.
Country n.a.
Company n.a.
Stability number kd
3 (breaking); 4 (non-breaking)
Preferred design formula Van der Meer:
{\displaystyle {\frac {H_{s}}{\Delta \cdot d_{n50}}}={\begin{cases}c_{p}P^{0.18}\left({\frac {S}{\sqrt {N}}}\right)^{0.2}\xi _{m}^{-0.5}&{\mbox{als }}\xi _{m}<\xi {cr}\quad [plunging]\\c_{s}P^{-0.13}\left({\frac {S}{\sqrt {N}}}\right)^{0.2}\xi _{m}^{P}{\sqrt {cot\alpha }}&{\mbox{als }}\xi _{m}\geq \xi {cr}\quad [surging]\end{cases}}}

and

{\displaystyle \xi _{cr}=\left[{\frac {c_{p}}{c_{s}}}P^{0.31}{\sqrt {tan\alpha }}\right]^{\frac {1}{P+0.5}}}
Application 2 layer, random placement
Application range large waves
Patent n.a.
Trademark n.a.
wikipedia pages NL -
link to projects in the International Breakwater Directory
Commercial information:
  • This unit can freely be used