A FORMULATION OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF WAVES IN FRONT OF BREAKWATERS

Abstract

  The probabilistic displacement of breakwaters is calculated by Monte Carlo simulation. One of the problems of the application of the method is computational load and a more simple method is desirable for the practical design. This study aims at formulating the probability distributions of waves in front of breakwaters for the sake of reducing the computational load in the evaluation of failure probability. As the result of the study, we found that the component of the probability distributions of waves corresponding the occurrence of sliding can be attributed to either Weibull distribution or Type-III extreme value distribution.