PREFACE 



This report provides coastal engineers a bibliography of references 

 which could potentially be applied to the design of detached breakwaters. 

 The bibliography is published under the coastal construction research 

 program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center. 



The report was prepared by John R. Lesnik, Hydraulic Engineer, under 

 the general supervision of R.A. Jachowski, Chief, Coastal Design Criteria 

 Branch . 



The author gratefully acknowledges the following people who made 

 contributions to this effort: F. Biesel, Directeur Scientifique, Labora- 

 toire Central d'Hydraulique de France; S.Y. Chew, Housing and Development 

 Board, Republic of Singapore; D.P. Dodge, Public Works Canada, Vancouver, 

 B.C.; I. Fried, Civil and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Haifa, Israel; 

 O.T. Magoon, U.S. Army Engineer Division, South Pacific; M. Porraz, Con- 

 trol de Erosion, S.A., Mexico City, Mexico; R. Silvester, University of 

 Western Australia. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



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JOHN H. COUSINS 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



