Research and analysis

Overtopping of seawalls

A project was carried out to collate all relevant information on the overtopping of seawalls through a review of all available existing research the reanalysis of some data and additional experiments.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
1 January 1999

Documents

Overtopping of Seawalls

Ref: ISBN 1857050703, LIT 0824

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The research has concentrated on providing techniques for predicting the mean overtopping discharge, and hence consequent flood volumes and drainage requirements for a range of commonly occurring seawall types. Little, or no attention, has been paid to either the peak individual (wave-by-wave) overtopping discharge or to the numberof waves likely to overtop a particular defence, despite the importance of these two parameters in determining the overall standard of performance of a sea defence.

Published 1 January 1999