DEVELOPMENT OF A CRITICAL STRUCTURE STATE ALARM SYSTEM BASED ON THE INSTRUMENTATION OF THE BOTAFOC BREAKWATER#8 CAISSON
Balearic Port Authority has developed an instrumentation system for the #8 caisson of the Botafoc breakwater that integrates 12 pressure sensors located at three surfaces, two in contact with the sea water and another with the bottom. This design was completed with an inertial system that measures the angular velocities and the accelerations over the three Cartesian axes. Consequently, the system measures actions (pressures) and reactions (movements and accelerations) experimented by the caisson, due to sea waves and/or other service loads. R+D department of the Port Authority and Polytechnic University of Madrid are working on two directions, the development of new theories on vertical breakwater design that go beyond Goda and Sainflou, and on the creation of a real-time critical structure alarm system, based on the instrumentation installed. This alarm system has two main parts: the instrumentation itself that collects data and processes it on real-time (the data processing compares the pressure law suffered by the caisson in every step process with the design critical state of the caisson, in this case the Goda pressure law for a 6.5 m wave), giving a security coefficient that points out the risk level on real-time; and the alarm system consisting of a monitoring panel located in the Port Control Center that shows the risk level and advises in case of an incidental evacuation of this critical portuary installation.
vertical breakwater structure failure instrumentation sensor pressure law wave-structure interaction risk and safety
Gárate J.L.Almazán Monzón MC Palomino Montes JR García Mateos A Matías González A Parada Serret JR Amorós
Polytechnic University of Madrid.Spain Polytechnic University of Madrid Balearic Port Authority.Ministry of Fomento CEPYC.CEDEX.Ministry of Fomento
国际会议
第16届亚太地区国际水利学大会暨第3届水工水力学国际研讨会(16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symoposium of IAHR-ISHS)
南京
英文
1860-1867
2008-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）