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http://dx.doi.org/10.9765/KSCOE.2011.23.3.258

Uncertainty Analysis of Wave Forces on Upright Sections of Composite Breakwaters  

Lee, Cheol-Eung (Department of Civil Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers / v.23, no.3, 2011 , pp. 258-264 More about this Journal
Abstract
A MCS technique is represented to stochastically analyze the uncertainties of wave forces exerted on the upright sections of composite breakwaters. A stochastical models for horizontal and uplift wave forces can be straightforwardly formulated as a function of the probabilistic characteristics of maximum wave height. Under the assumption of wave forces followed by extreme distribution, the behaviors of relative wave forces to Goda's wave forces are studied by the MCS technique. Double-truncated normal distribution is applied to take the effects of uncertainties of scale and shape parameters of extreme distribution into account properly. Averages and variances of relative wave forces are quantitatively calculated with respect to the exceedance probabilities of maximum design wave height. It is found that the averages of relative wave forces may be decreased consistently with the increases of the exceedance probabilities. In particular, the averages on uplift wave force are evaluated slightly larger than those on horizontal wave force, but the variations of coefficient of the former are adversely smaller than those of the latter. It means that the uncertainties of uplift wave forces are smaller than those of horizontal wave forces in the same condition of the exceedance probabilities. Therefore, the present results could be useful to the reliability based-design method that require the statistical properties about the uncertainties of wave forces.
Keywords
composite breakwaters; stochastical wave force model; extreme distribution; uncertainty; MCS technique;
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