LIST OF TABLES 



No. Page 



1 Summary of Coefficients and Exponents for 



Breaker Depth Index 25 



2 Summary of Coefficients and Exponents for 



Breaker Height Index 28 



3 Data Summary for Breaker Index and 



Plunge Distance on Plane Slopes 44 



4 Maximum Wave Height Observed in the 18 -In. Tank 63 



5 Range of Wave Conditions 64 



6 Prototype and Model Conditions of Case CE400 (Pilot Test) ... 72 



7 List of Design Parameters for Base Tests 72 



8 List of Design Parameters for Base Test Variations 73 



9 Irregular Wave Test Design Parameters 74 



10 Summary of Monochromatic Base Tests 77 



11 Summary of Irregular Wave Tests 80 



12 Summary of Scaled Base Tests 116 



Al Monochromatic Wave Base Tests A2 



A2 Summary of Plane- Slope Tests A7 



A3 Results of Iversen (1952) A8 



A4 Results of Horikawa and Kuo (1967) A10 



A5 Results of Galvin (1969) A13 



A6 Results of Saeki and Sasaki (1973) A13 



A7 Results of Iwagaki et al. (1974) A14 



A8 Results of Walker (1974b) A15 



A9 Results of Singamsetti and Wind (1980) A16 



A10 Results of Mizuguchi (1981) A19 



All Results of Maruyama et al. (1983) A19 



A12 Results of Visser (1984) A19 



A13 Results of Stive (1985) A19 



LIST OF FIGURES 



No. Page 



1 Spilling wave 14 



2 Plunging wave 14 



3 Collapsing wave 15 



4 Definition sketch of wave at incipient breaking 19 



5 Breaker depth index predictions 26 



6 Breaker height index predictions 29 



7 Definition sketch of plunge distance and vortex area 33 



8 Definition sketch of wave runup 40 



9 Breaker depth index as a function of H /L 45 



10 Function a(m) 48 



11 Function b(m) 48 



12 Calculated values of 7 b for plane slopes as a 



function of H /L 49 



13 Breaker height index as a function of H /L 50 



14 Function C(m) 53 



15 Function n(m) 53 



16 Comparison of measured plunge distance and 



empirical prediction of Galvin (1969) 55 



