CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 10 



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 11 



I INTRODUCTION 13 



II PROBLEM DEFINITION 15 



III THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS 18 



1. General 18 



2. Example Problems 26 



IV QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS 29 



1. General 29 



2. Slope Roughness 33 



3. Effects of Beach Slope Fronting a Structure 33 



4 . Breaking Waves 35 



5. Maximum Runup 36 



V EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 38 



1. Smooth Slopes 38 



2. Rubble Slopes 60 



3. Stepped Slopes 96 



4. Estimation of Rough-Slope Runup 100 



VI SCALE EFFECTS 103 



1. General 103 



2. Reynolds Number 104 



3. Smooth-Slope Scale Effects 106 



4. Rough-Slope Scale Effects 113 



5. Example Problems 118 



VII RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH 119 



VIII SUMMARY 121 



LITERATURE CITED 124 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 128 



TABLES 



1 Relative water depths 15 



2 Smooth-slope runup test conditions 39 



