Breakwater

Abstract

Provided is a breakwater formed of a frame on the front surface of which a number of bent breakwater members stack to thereby prevent the waves or billows from being be flowed into the inner side of a seashore, seawall, harbor, or dock, and induce saving of an installation cost through a simple configuration. The breakwater includes: a frame body having a plurality of supporting frames in which a number of coupling holes arc bored; a number of breakwater members in which combining holes are bored, and the coupling holes and the combining holes arc combined with each other by coupling elements; and front and rear supporters having respective fixing wires, connection linkages and heavy bodies.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a breakwater which is installed at a seashore, seawall, harbor, or dock, in order to block the waves or billows which surge upon from the open sea, and more particularly to a breakwater formed of a frame whose upper portion is narrower as it goes up and whose lower portion is wider as it goes down, and on the front surface of which a number of bent breakwater members stack to thereby prevent the waves or billows from being be flowed into the inner side of a seashore, seawall, harbor, or dock, in advance, and induce saving of an installation cost through a simple configurationBACKGROUND ART[0002]In general, breakwaters are constructed and installed in order to maintain the inner sea sides of seashores, seawalls, harbors, or docks to be calm by preventing the waves or billows from being be flowed into the inner sides thereof from the open sea.[0003]A breakwater or shore protection facility is constructed by building sand and stones...

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Benefits of technology

[0012]To solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a breakwater which is installed at a seashore, seawall, harbor, or dock, in order to block waves or billows, and formed of a frame whose upper portion is narrower as it goes up and whose lower portion is wider as it goes down, having a predetermined inclined angle, and on the front surface of which a number of bent breakwater members stack to thereby reduce a damage by the high waves or billows.

[0013]It is another object of the present invention to provide a breakwater in which breakwater members are installed in a spaced state at a predetermined interval, to thereby reduce a hitting force of the waves or billows caused by the flood tide by the tsunami or the large typhoon named hurricane or cicada, as low as possible, and prevent a loss of the breakwater in advance.

[0014]It is still another object of the present invention to provide a breakwater which can be easily installed using coupling elements such as bolts and nuts at the time of combining the frame and breakwater members, and does not give a burden in view of an installation cost.

[0029]In addition, since the breakwater members are formed of curved faces which are shaped with a predetermined curvature, high waves or billows are quickly scattered when they are hit on the breakwater members. As a result, the impact which the breakwater members receive becomes degraded and thus the breakwater members are not lost or collapsed.

[0030]Furthermore, as the height of the frame, body with which the breakwater members are combined can be extensively installed as necessary, the breakwater can be highly set up according to a place or region or the height of the waves or billows, to thereby prevent the waves or billows from invading the inner side of the seashores, seawalls, harbors, or docks by the flood tide by the tsunami or the large typhoon named hurricane or cicada.

Problems solved by technology

As a result, since the existing concrete tetrapods are formed by concrete molds whose total specific gravity is not large, they are insufficient to fight against the enormous force of the waves or billows applied at the installed state, it was the actual condition.

In the serious case, the existing tetrapods may be seceded very much from the installation position and may be lost.

In this case, as the connected state of the existing tetrapods is collapsed, the problem of being properly unable to perform the function of breakwater has been exposed.

However, the compositional elements are complicated, and thus a burden of expenses due to the installation cost may increase.

Further, working time may be delayed by a concrete curing period according to use of the concrete or transportation of the concrete and concrete structure may be difficult or delayed.

Furthermore, in the case of the conventional breakwaters, since blocks blocking the waves or billows are formed of a single structure made of concrete, a partial loss of the breakwater may occur by the impact applied when the waves or billows are hit.

For example, with the flood tide by the tsunami or the large typhoon named hurricane or cicada, the waves or billows may hit the wall-shaped breakwaters with a very large amount of force, which causes part of the concrete blocks to be lost.

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