Sunday 27 December 2009

Detached Breakwater


Is the type of breakwater is placed separately at a certain distance from the beach with a position parallel to the beach that serves to protect the coast from the blow waves coming from offshore. Besides the breakwater is useful to resist tidal sediment transport.

There are two types of Breakwater is a common type of construction (CERC, SPM, vol 1, 1984), the Shore-connected Breakwater Breakwater and offshore. Shore-connected Breakwater characterized that this structure directly related to the mainland.
Breakwater offshore whereas the opposite is not physically connected to the mainland, they almost certainly have similarities in their role.

The advantage of using detached Breakwater (DB) is:
a) Self-effective to restrain the transport of sediment off the coast (on-offshore transport).
a) The ability in stabilizing the beach has been proven.
b) Can be designed to maintain the aesthetics of the beach because the construction can be designed with a threshold of drowning (Submerged Breakwater).
c) construction is designed not difficult to use local materials, such as rubble-mound construction (rock pile).
d) The design allows overtopping, then behind the water quality can be improved detached Breakwater.
e) Placement detached Breakwater near the coast can work to reduce the wave height along the coast.

The weakness of the use of detached Breakwater (DB) is:
a) Detached Breakwater built rather difficult because apart from the beach and need temporary building or building a floating untu8k support construction equipment required.
b) Detached Breakwater surfzone can change characters and can limit specific activities on the beach, like windsurfing, diving, bathing the surrounding buildings
c) Dangerous for swimmers.
d) a poor design will cause water quality problems due to poor circulation in the back.
e) Detached Breakwater can form TOMBOLO. This raises the parallel transport barrier beaches and cause serious problems downdrift miscarriages

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