@inproceedings{05396e421213448ea745df71641e343d,
title = "Stability of rubble mound breakwaters against solitary waves",
abstract = "No formulas currently exist to design armour units against tsunami attack. To develop such formulae, laboratory experiments were carried out to clarify the failure mechanism of these types of structures. Also, the behavior of armour units against real cases of tsunami attack during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami were evaluated. Both the results of the laboratory experiments and the breakwaters studied in the field where then analyzed in terms of well established formulas such as that of Van der Meer or Hudson. The design of structures that only fail partially during a given tsunami event ({"}resilient{"} or {"}tenacious{"} structures) should be prioritized in future counter-measures, and in order to make it possible to construct such structures a modification of the Hudson formula for their design is proposed.",
keywords = "Hudson, Rubble-mound breakwater, Solitary waves, Stability, Tohoku, Tsunami, Van der Meer",
author = "Miguel Esteban and Izumi Morikubo and Tomoya Shibayama and Mu{\~n}oz, {Rafael Aranguiz} and Takahito Mikami and Thao, {Nguyen Danh} and Koichiro Ohira and Akira Ohtani",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780989661119",
series = "Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2012, ICCE 2012",
note = "33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2012, ICCE 2012 ; Conference date: 01-07-2012 Through 06-07-2012",
}