Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Assessment amount of the horizontal and vertical displacements of sea wall using FLAC3D software

Document Type : Original Manuscript

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دانشگاه علوم و فنون دریایی خرمشهر
Abstract
Sea Walls are constructed to protect coastal against of waves and prevent water to coastal. In order to properly understand the behavior of these structures must have proper information of loads to the structure. One of the main significance loads over the seawall is wave’s loads. Weight forces the walls, Weight backfill, Seawater weight on the heel wall and Forces exerted on the beach other forces that enters the coastal wall. Considering the importance of seawalls study on the stability of these structures has been the subject of study. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, three scenarios include changes in the geometry of the wall and Soil properties. In present study four geometry vertical, inclined, convex, concave, are considered and modeling with Flac 3D software. The results of this study showed that the minimum of horizontal and vertical displacement are about convex seawalls and the maximum of them is about vertical concave seawalls. Also the results showed that in the higher shear strength of soils the minimum of horizontal and vertical displacements occurred.
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Volume 16, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Autumn 2017
Pages 114-125

  • Receive Date 28 June 2016
  • Revise Date 11 September 2016
  • Accept Date 05 October 2016
  • Publish Date 23 August 2017