CONTENTS 



Page 



PREFACE 1 



LIST OF TABLES 4 



LIST OF FIGURES 4 



CONVERSION FACTORS, NON-SI TO SI (METRIC) UNITS OF MEASUREMENT 6 



PART I : INTRODUCTION 7 



Background 7 



Scope 8 



PART II : DESCRIPTION OF FACILITY AND EXPERIMENTS 10 



Large Wave Tank 10 



Experiment Procedure 13 



Recording of Data 15 



PART III : SUMMARY OF THE DATA 17 



Experiment Cases 17 



Incident Wave Conditions and Water Levels 17 



Profile Morphology 20 



Breaking Wave Characteristics 20 



Variations and Exceptions 23 



PART IV: REPRESENTATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DATA SET 24 



Definition of Bars and Berms 24 



Classification of Bar and Berm Profiles 25 



Bar Evolution 27 



Berm Evolution 32 



Net Cross-Shore Sand Transport Rate 34 



ENDNOTES 38 



REFERENCES 39 



APPENDIX A : SUPPLEMENTARY DATA A1 



Breaking Wave Data A1 



Runup Data A15 



Water Temperature and Fall Velocity A15 



Water Level Variation for Case 911 A17 



APPENDIX B 

 APPENDIX C 

 APPENDIX D 



PLOTS OF BEACH PROFILES B1 



BEACH PROFILE DATA C1 



NOTATION D1 



