Comparison With Model Results 



Prototype-scale wave transmission tests of Goodyear FTB's were 

 conducted by Giles and Sorensen (1978) with car tires of 64 cm diameter 

 using monoperiodic waves with heights up to 1.4 m. The tests were done 

 on two different beam widths, four and six modules at two water depths, 

 2 and 4 m. Their results are referred to as the CERC results in 

 Figure 10. 



Model— scale tests of Goodyear FTB's were conducted by Nelson 

 (1978) using monoperiodic waves and tires of 15 cm diameter. The tests 

 were done on three different beam widths, three, four and six modules at 

 two water depths, 46 and 84 cm. Results for the six-module beam tests 

 agree well with the CERC six-module results and these data sets have 

 been plotted in Figure 11. Only those points with wave steepnesses H/L 

 in the range 0.02 - 0.06 are included. The results are easily 

 distinguishable because the CERC data is for L/B >^ 0.81 and the Nelson 

 data is for L/B _< 0.82. The curve through the data is from second-order 

 regression, modified slightly by eye for L/B > 2.0. 



Model -scale tests of Goodyear FTB's were conducted by Harms 

 and Bender (1978) using mostly monoperiodic waves and tires of 8.4 and 

 15 cm diameter. The tests were done on four different beam widths, two, 

 four, eight and twelve modules at water depths from 31 to 120 cm. Their 

 results are referred to as the Harms results in Figure 10. 



Model -scale tests of Goodyear FTB's were conducted by McGregor 

 (1978) using pseudo-random waves and tires of 15 cm diameter. The tests 



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