Description

Floating breakwaters

We feel the technical knowledge we have acquired in engineering school and in practice should be put into full use not only for standard building projects but also for creating new possibilities and designs. This results in product development and also in innovative engineering for otherwise standard projects. The added value of innovation is always long term and it takes a load of good common sense and intuition to evaluate research and development.

Breakwater for resort
GTM and our partner, FDN, is involved in the development of multiple resorts all over the world. To protect the marina floating breakwaters have been used.

Building a floating breakwater in Greece (Messolonghi)
The whole process during the building of a floating breakwater in Greece is explained in the pictures below. Finally the floating breakwater is brought to it’s position and tested in extreme weather conditions.

For the Messolonghi Breakwater we did our own wave analysis of the area
and compared it with data given by the authorities.

Our design criteria were as follows:

• Water depth near breaker 9 m
• Wind speed *2 Beaufort (*0 m/s)
• Occurring wave periods T =1 to 6 sec , corresponding wave lengths up to *0 m
• Wave height up to 2 m (significant wave height)
• Wave damping needed: up to 2 m waves with a period of 5 s should be
damped up to *0%. Higher waves damped *0%
• Design extreme condition wave height up to 4 m (for design anchorage,
concrete and connections)
• Design life structure *0 years
• Reference period of loads **0 years

The structure was calculated according to the European codes.

Building a floating breakwater
The whole process during the building of a floating breakwater in Greece is explained in the pictures below. Finally the floating breakwater is brought to it’s position and tested in extreme weather conditions.

For the Messolonghi Breakwater we did our own wave analysis of the area
and compared it with data given by the authorities.

Our design criteria were as follows:

• Water depth near breaker 9 m
• Wind speed *2 Beaufort (*0 m/s)
• Occurring wave periods T =1 to 6 sec , corresponding wave lengths up to *0 m
• Wave height up to 2 m (significant wave height)
• Wave damping needed: up to 2 m waves with a period of 5 s should be
damped up to *0%. Higher waves damped *0%
• Design extreme condition wave height up to 4 m (for design anchorage,
concrete and connections)
• Design life structure *0 years
• Reference period of loads **0 years

The structure was calculated according to the European codes.