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Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
| Project
Number |
89 |
| Date of Summary |
June 30, 1987 |
| Subject |
Wave Erosion of a Frozen Berm |
| Performing Activity |
Arctec Incorporated |
| Principal Investigator |
Mr. Jack C. Cox |
| Contracting Agency |
Minerals Management Service |
| Estimated Completion |
Complete |
| Description |
The objective was to examine the
process of wave erosion of frozen or partially frozen slopes. A specific application is
the erosion of proposed unprotected causeway berms and gravel islands to be constructed in
the Arctic. The rate of erosion and the type of scope protection required were identified.
Tests were conducted at prototype scale to correctly model the thermal erosion into the
frozen slope. The resiliency of the frozen gravel core to limited wave attack were also
established. |
| Progress |
Complete |
| Reports |
AA (47 pages)
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Cox, J. C. Moude, M. C., Wave
Erosion of an Unprotected Frozen Gravel Berm, Final Report-Phase I, Arctec Engineering,
Inc., Columbia, Maryland, April 1985. |
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