Floating breakwater field experience, West Coast /

Mode of access: Internet.

Field experiences with floating breakwaters in the eastern United States /

In the past 10 years, the use of floating breakwaters as temporary coastal structures has become increasingly widespread in the United States as an inexpensive means for suppressing waves. However, as with any new technology, there have been many failures and a substantial number of imaginative, successful innovations. One of the chief problems contributing to the failure rate has been a lack of awareness by designers of reliable, up-to-date technical information. As part of a large research effort to remedy this problem, a survey was conducted on field experience with floating breakwaters in the Eastern United States. Results of the survey confirmed that state-of-the-art technical literature is not being properly disseminated. Structures built according to early design manuals were shown to have failed before the completion of their design life. Conversely, floating breakwaters built to the standards set by recent research have fared well and show promise of meeting their design golas. The weakest areas of the present technology are flotation and the anchoring systems. It is recommended that a concentrated research effort be directed toward these problem areas; it is also recommended that the monitoring of state-of-the-art projects continue. (Author).

Floating debris control : a literature review /

"June 1987."

Elements of floating-debris control systems /

"September 1988."

Floating tire breakwater tests, Pickering Beach, Delaware /

Mode of access: Internet.

Evaluation of numerical models for a floating breakwater /

"Monitored by Coastal Engineering Research Center, US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station."

Monitoring completed coastal projects : operational assessment of floating breakwaters, Puget Sound, Washington /

"April 1988."

Floating Breakwater Prototype Test Program: Seattle, Washington /

Includes abstract.

The floating light of the Goodwin Sands.

Mode of access: Internet.

Follow-up study: floating glass beads for traffic stripes. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Observations made with the Cookson floating zenith telescope in the years 1919-1927, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, for the determination of variation of latitude and the constant of aberration.

At head of title: Supplied for the public service.

The statistical theory of relative errors in floating-point computation /

Thesis (M. S.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Determination of mooring load and transmitted wave height for a floating tire breakwater /

"September 1979."

Effects of oil slick properties on the dispersion of floating oil into the sea /

Bibliography: p. 321-326.

Floating breakwaters : state-of-the-art literature review /

"October 1981."