Abstract
This paper proposes a methodology to estimate the occurrence of impact breaking wave forces on composite breakwaters, by utilizing a neural network which is said to be useful to deal with the data of which a cause-and-effect relationship is ambiguous. Experimental data of Tanimoto et al. (1981) were well classified and arranged with respect to the occurrence of impact breaking wave force by the neural network.
Since the network was constructed by the experimental data of which condition was limited to some degree, the network is not applicable to all cases of composite breakwaters; however, the methodology proposed here is general. Adding other data, we can develop the more suitable network.
