Determination of design wave impact loading on a pedestrian walkway on top of a breakwater

This paper focuses on the methodology used to determine the design wave impact loading on a pedestrian walkway on top of a breakwater. The wave loading on the walkway is an impact loading with high forces acting for short times. The actual impact loading is depending on the characteristics of the overtopping waves ánd on the dynamic characteristics of the pedestrian walkway. In order to assess the impact effect of the overtopping waves on the structure tests are run on a physical 1/20 scale model is built and run in the large wave flume of Flanders Hydraulics Research Laboratory (Antwerp, Belg... Mehr ...