Stability Assessment Formulas for an Interlocking Caisson Breakwater under Oblique Wave Conditions

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ABSTRACT Park, W.S.; Won, D.H.; Seo, J.H., and Lee, B.W., 2018. Stability assessment formulas for an interlocking caisson breakwater under oblique wave conditions.. In: Shim, J.-S.; Chun, I., and Lim, H.S. (eds.), Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp.1236–1240. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. As a countermeasure for improving the stability of conventional caisson breakwaters, a method has been proposed in which adjacent caissons are interlocked with each other to consecutively resist the abnormal wave forces. It is not possible to reasonably evaluate the stability of breakwaters that have been elongated by interlocking, especially for oblique waves, by using the current design criterion defined for breakwater sections. Therefore, it was studied the stability assessment formula of an interlocking caisson breakwater under oblique wave conditions, in this study. To maintain consistency in che...