Coastal Protection (DM-26.2), Section 5: Wall Design

This section covers the design of walls against waves. It begins with wave-induced forces on walls and shows how to calculate them for nonbreaking waves, breaking waves, and broken waves, how the angle of wave attack changes the load, and how to treat nonvertical walls.

It then covers uplift forces, including the general case and the forces on a wall, so the designer can check the foundation as well as the wall itself.

A wall that works well in nonbreaking waves can be loaded much more heavily by waves that break on it, so the section is organized to help you decide which case governs.

In this chapter

• Wave-Induced Forces on Walls
  • General
  • Nonbreaking waves
  • Breaking waves
  • Broken waves
  • Effect of angle of attack
  • Nonvertical walls
• Uplift Forces
  • General
  • Forces on structures