Abstract

As the length of a caisson becomes long, the wave force per unit length becomes smaller because of the wave phase difference. In this study, we performed hydraulic model test on a long caisson placed on the complicated submarine topography model under various wave conditions in order to investigate the characteristics of wave reduction.It is found that the wave force on a long caisson placed on the complicated submarine topography is reduced significantly in the case of oblique waves. The reduction ratio for multi-directional random waves is smaller than that for uni-directional random waves due to directional spreading. In the case of head-on waves, wave force per unit length on the long caisson becomes smaller because of the dispersion of the wave height and the phase due to wave refraction.

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