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t. REPORT NUMBER 



TP 78-3 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TiTLE (and Subtitle) 



PROTOTYPE SCALE MOORING LOAD AND TRANSMISSION 

 TESTS FOR A FLOATING TIRE BREAKWATER 



S. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Technical Paper 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfs) 



Michael L. Giles 

 Robert M. Sorensen 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfs; 



PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CS) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



F3I538 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. "REPORT DATE 



April 1978 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 

 50 



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15. SECURITY CLASS, (of thia report) 



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16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (ol thla Report) 



Approved for public release, distribution unlimited. 



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Breakwaters 



Floating tire breakwater 

 Mobile breakwater 



ary and identity by block nutnber) 



Monochromatic waves 

 Mooring force 

 Wave transmission 



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Prototype scale tests of the mooring load and wave transmission 

 characteristics of a floating tire breakwater were conducted in the large 

 wave tank at the Coastal Engineering Research Center. Standard Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. 18-tire modules connected to form breakwaters, 4 and 

 6 modules (8.5 and 12.8 meters, 28 and 42 feet] wide in the direction of 

 wave advance, were tested in water depths of 2 and 4 meters (6.56 and 



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