Research on Breakwater Structure: A Brief Review

Xiaowei Wang; Xiaoqun Wang; Likun Liu; Li Xin; Kaiming Li

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Research on Breakwater Structure: A Brief Review

Xiaowei Wang, Xiaoqun Wang^*, Likun Liu, Li Xin, Kaiming Li

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As a kind of protective engineering, breakwater plays a very important role in the safety of the protected objects, and scholars from all over the world have done a lot of research on the characteristics of breakwater. Reviews are a quick way to see how research is progressing. In addition to the traditional breakwaters for the purpose of wave suppression, there are many breakwaters with power generation functions. In order to supplement and enrich the research of breakwater, adapt to the development of The Times, the breakwater is reviewed. In this paper, breakwaters are divided into traditional breakwaters and wave energy converter(WEC) breakwaters according to their functions. The traditional breakwaters for wave absorbing, while the WEC breakwater is breakwater added wave energy converter, which can convert wave energy into electrical energy, so WEC breakwater has two functions of wave dissipation and power generation. According to the fixed type, the traditional breakwater is divided into fixed breakwater and floating breakwater. In addition to adding WEC breakwaters in the classification, this paper takes the transmission coefficient k_t =0.5 as the reference line and compares the optimal transmission coefficient of the corresponding breakwater structure with the reference line. Finally, the structure of the breakwater is summarized and suggested. Hope to play a guiding role in scholars' research and engineering construction.

Published in	American Journal of Modern Energy (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajme.20241003.12
Page(s)	42-52
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Fixed Type, Floating Type, WEC Breakwater, Transmission Coefficient, Capture Width Ratio

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School of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China; Hebei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Water Conservancy, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China

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