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1. REPORT NUMBER 



TR 81-1 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 



FLOATING BREAKWATERS: STATE-OF-THE-ART 

 LITERATURE REVIEW 



5. TYPE OF REPORT a PERIOD COVERED 



Technical Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfsJ 



Lyndell Z. Hales 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfe) 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Waterways Experiment Station, Hydraulics Laboratory 



Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180 



10. PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT, TASK 

 AREA a WORK UNIT NUMBERS 



F31679 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CS) 



Kingman Building. Fort Belvoir. Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



September 1981 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



279 



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UNCLASSIFIED 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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Floating breakwaters Structure performance 

 Literature review Wave transmission 

 Mooring loads 



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A multitude of conceptual models of floating breakwaters have been pro- 

 posed without extensive or complete evaluation of most of these concepts. The 

 technical literature regarding floating breakwater applicability and design 

 procedures is fragmentary and sometimes confusing. Clear, concise guidance 

 does not always exist for those responsible for planning and developing wave 

 protection measures which utilize floating breakwaters. This study reviewed 



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