WALOWA (WAVE LOADS ON WALLS) - LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS IN THE DELTA FLUME
- Andreas Kortenhaus1
- Maximilian Streicher1
- Corrado Altomare1
- Vincent Gruwez2
- Bas Hofland3
- Xuexue Chen3
- Krasimir Marinov3
- Babette Scheres4
- Holger Schüttrumpf4
- Matthias Hirt4
- Lorenzo Cappietti5
- Andrea Esposito6
- Alessandra Saponieri7
- Nico Valentini7
- Giuseppe Tripepi8
- Davide Pasquali9
- Marcello Di Risio9
- Francesco Aristodemo8
- Leonardo Damiani7
- Marc Willems10
- Dieter Vanneste10
- Tomohiro Suzuki10
- Mark Klein Breteler11
- Dorothea Kaste11
- 1. Dep. of Civil Eng., Ghent University
- 2. Dep. of Civil Eng., Ghent University; Dep. of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Eng., Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- 3. Dep. of Hydraulic Eng., Delft Uni. of Technology
- 4. Inst. of Hydraulic Eng. & Water Resources Mngt., RWTH Aachen University
- 5. Dip. di Ing. Civile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Firenze
- 6. 5AM3 Spin-Off srl, Advanced Models and Methos in Maritime Engineering
- 7. Dep.of Civil, Environ., Building Eng. and Chemistry, Politecnico di Bari
- 8. Dep. of Civil Eng., Università della Calabria
- 9. Dep. of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Eng., Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- 10. Flanders Hydraulics Laboratory
- 11. Deltares
Description
WaLoWa stands for Wave Loads on Walls and is a Hydralab+ project funded by the European Union. Ghent University (Belgium), TU Delft (The Netherlands), RWTH Aachen (Germany), Politechnico Bari and University of Florence (Italy) and Flanders Hydraulics Research (Belgium) are jointly working on the WaLoWa project. The user team leader is Ghent University. The WaLoWa project is hosted by Deltares and the Delta Flume facility.
When storm walls and buildings are located on top of a dike or promenade, overtopping waves can induce large forces on these structures as has e.g. been observed at the Belgian coast which has a specifically shallow foreshore. Especially during storm season and in times of sea level rise these loads can be highly destructive. It is therefore the key objective of WaLoWa to study overtopped wave loads on structures situated on top of a dike and in shallow foreshore conditions.
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