Model Testing @ UTM Laboratory

The principal scope in the model study of the stepped floats is to investigate the wave height changes due to the wave-structure interaction. Experiments were conducted in the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Coastal and Offshore Engineering Institute, Universiti Teknology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur on multiple rows of stepped floats. The laboratory investigations were conducted in a simplified environment and controlled condition where tides and currents were not taken into account. The experiments were run in the wave only condition in the wave flume which were subjected to steady monochromatic non-breaking waves throughout the experiments. In this study, variation in amplitudes of wave which were required for the respective analysis of energy dissipation due to the presence of the breakwater at different wave periods, incoming wave heights and dirrerent water depths, was determined.

Wave Transmission Tests