CORE-LOC is an innovative coastal protection armor unit designed to withstand the harshest of wave climates. Its unique design as a strong interlocking unit eliminates a slender central section, the weak point in many other concrete armor units which have had a tendency to break at that point. In contrast, CORE-LOC's strength is in the center of the unit. Its superior hydraulic stability is attributed to the extraordinary interlocking of its symmetrically tapered octagonal members. This product is the result of years of concrete armor research within the Coastal Structures Group at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).
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