Short Course: Theory and Design of Floating Wave Attenuators

This course builds on the Design and Construction of Large Floating Structures course but may be taken independently. The course will guide the marine designer and engineer through the planning and design of floating wave attenuators and will address the following:

• Site characterization and development of an appropriate design criteria
• The difference between fixed breakwaters and floating pontoons
• Development of the theory for wave attenuation in deep and shallow water
• Estimations and effectiveness of wave period and wavelength applied to wave attenuators
• Model test and prototype measurements
• Case examples

This four-hour course will provide attendees with an understanding of how attenuators do, and don’t work, the expected scale (size) of an attenuator needed to perform adequately, and the practical limitations in the use of attenuators.