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Wave overtopping and hazard by Tom Bruce
Coastal Engineering 2002 - Solving Coastal Conundrums - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference, 2003
This paper describes new research under the VOWS (Violent Overtopping of Waves at Seawalls) proje... more This paper describes new research under the VOWS (Violent Overtopping of Waves at Seawalls) project. Established guidance on admissible overtopping volumes is based upon values of mean discharge. In cases where hazard to pedestrians/vehicles are concerned, it is ...
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Coastal Engineering, 2009
Within the CLASH project, wave overtopping at the vertical seawall at Samphire Hoe was measured b... more Within the CLASH project, wave overtopping at the vertical seawall at Samphire Hoe was measured by HR Wallingford (HRW), and compared laboratory tests in 2 & 3 dimensions carried out at the University of Edinburgh and HRW. At Samphire Hoe, overtopping volumes were captured ...
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Proceedings of the ICE - Maritime Engineering, 2005
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Coastal Engineering 2004 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference, 2005
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Coastal Engineering 2002 - Solving Coastal Conundrums - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference, 2003
It has often been suggested that wave overtopping processes measured in physical models may inclu... more It has often been suggested that wave overtopping processes measured in physical models may include scale effects which could influence the reliability of any predictions to full scale. This paper describes studies at small-and large-scale under the VOWS (Violent Overtopping ...
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Coastal Engineering 2004 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference, 2005
Page 1. VOWS Violent Overtopping by Waves at Seawalls Violent Overtopping of Vertical Seawalls un... more Page 1. VOWS Violent Overtopping by Waves at Seawalls Violent Overtopping of Vertical Seawalls under Oblique Wave Conditions N. Napp , J. Pearson & T. Bruce School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh, UK ...
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Coastal Structures 2003, 2004
Well‐verified guidance exists for the prediction of wave overtopping over vertical walls, includi... more Well‐verified guidance exists for the prediction of wave overtopping over vertical walls, including breaking / impulsive and non‐breaking / pulsating wave attack. For broken waves, only Goda's design charts give guidance, and only for sea steepnesses s < 0.036. This paper presents ...
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Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis (2001), 2002
Violent Wave Overtopping: Discharge Throw Velocities, Trajectories and Resulting Crown Deck Loadi... more Violent Wave Overtopping: Discharge Throw Velocities, Trajectories and Resulting Crown Deck Loading. [ASCE Conference Proceedings 273, 180 (2001)]. Tom Bruce, Leopoldo Franco, Paolo Alberti, Jonathan Pearson, William Allsop. Abstract. ...
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Proc Coastal …, 2003
As part of a major European research project into wave overtopping at coastal structures, overtop... more As part of a major European research project into wave overtopping at coastal structures, overtopping discharges have been measured at full-scale on a vertical seawall in Southeast England. The measurement site, Samphire Hoe, is an area of reclaimed land just west of Dover on the ...
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… in Brighton, UK, on 15-17 …, 2003
Violent wave overtopping at the coast, when are we safe? WILLIAM ALLSOP 1, TOM BRUCE 2, JONATHAN ... more Violent wave overtopping at the coast, when are we safe? WILLIAM ALLSOP 1, TOM BRUCE 2, JONATHAN PEARSON 2, JOHN ALDERSON 3 & TIM PULLEN 3 1 University of Southampton, c/o HR Wallingford, Wallingford, OX10 8BA UK 2 Division of Engineering, ...
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Coastal Engineering, 2004
The shallow water equations (SWE) have been used to model a series of experiments examining viole... more The shallow water equations (SWE) have been used to model a series of experiments examining violent wave overtopping of a near-vertical sloping structure with impacting wave conditions. A finite volume scheme was used to solve the shallow water equations. A monotonic reconstruction method was applied to eliminate spurious oscillations and ensure proper treatment of bed slope terms. Both the numerical
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Coastal Engineering, 2009
This paper describes a major programme of small-scale physical model tests to establish better th... more This paper describes a major programme of small-scale physical model tests to establish better the influence of armour type and configuration on overtopping. Specifically, 179 tests determined the relative difference in overtopping behaviour for 13 types/configurations of ...
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 2013
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Proceedings of the ICE - Maritime Engineering, 2005
Many exposed vertical or steep-fronted coastal structures experience large horizontal impact pres... more Many exposed vertical or steep-fronted coastal structures experience large horizontal impact pressures generated by breaking waves. Breaking and non-breaking waves can however also generate a large uprush of water at the structure, in some cases reaching heights of 70 m and more. This uprush is often carried over the structure, leading to overtopping. It has only recently been shown in small-scale model tests that the downfalling water mass can also generate significant vertical impact loadings on the deck of a breakwater. Within an ongoing research project, large-scale measurements of wave impact and downfall generated pressures on vertical and steeply-faced seawalls and breakwaters were conducted in the Large Wave Channel (GWK) at the Coastal Research Centre (FZK) in Hanover, Germany. The downfall pressures were found to consist of very short pressure peaks (durations down to 0. 5 ms) of up to 220 kPa magnitude (corresponding to 12 rgH i). The highest downfall pressures occurred for near-breaking waves; non-breaking and breaking waves generated smaller pressures of 20–70 kPa (corresponding to 2–6 rgH i). The magnitude of the observed downfall pressures is in the range of horizontal wave impact pressures and suggests that this type of loading, for which no guidance exists, should be considered in the design of coastal structures.
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Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 2009
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Coastal Engineering 2004 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference, 2005
... Wallingford, Howbery Park, Wallingford OX10 8BA, UK TOM BRUCE, Lecturer School of Engineering... more ... Wallingford, Howbery Park, Wallingford OX10 8BA, UK TOM BRUCE, Lecturer School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh, UK JON PEARSON, Research Fellow School of Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh, UK LEOPOLDO FRANCO, Modimar ...
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Coastal Engineering 2008 - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference, 2009
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Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis (2001), 2002
Violent Wave Overtopping: Discharge Throw Velocities, Trajectories and Resulting Crown Deck Loadi... more Violent Wave Overtopping: Discharge Throw Velocities, Trajectories and Resulting Crown Deck Loading. [ASCE Conference Proceedings 273, 180 (2001)]. Tom Bruce, Leopoldo Franco, Paolo Alberti, Jonathan Pearson, William Allsop. Abstract. ...
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Coastal Engineering 2006 - Proceedings of the 30th International Conference, 2007
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Extended Abstracts Volume (332 pages) + full paper CD-ROM (1772 pages), 2008
Flood Risk Management: Research and PracticeSamuels etal.(eds) © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group... more Flood Risk Management: Research and PracticeSamuels etal.(eds) © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-48507-4 Hazards from wave overtopping William Allsop Coastal Structures, HR Wallingford, Wallingford & University of Southampton, UK Tom Bruce ...
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