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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) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . 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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