Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
15 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Abstract
The breakwater of the bigger Bulgarian Black See Port has erected in the first years of the XX-th century near Varna. Soon after the complained of its construction considerable settlements have appeared. Some times during the one hundred years superstructures and gravity increasing on the soil around the breakwater have made. The last restoration has made around 30 years ago and after that – 10 years later too when concrete tetrapodes have laid before the structure. Thereafter the settlements are continuing. The investigations and studies point out local no stability soil. It is delay to apply a send bed, known from the classical examples La Spetzia (Italy) and Kobe (Japan). Now a new restoration and protection is executing. Many small caissons in chess order on the See bottom before the structure have to increase the grave and the weight, to break the waves like underwater breakwater, to decrease the bottom velocities and totally to protect the stability and to stop the settlements. Schemas, profiles, history of the construction, decisions are shown in the report.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Kolev, Chavdar Vassilev, "One Hundred Years Settlement of the Verna’s Breakwater - Construction on Soft Clay Like a Typical Example from University Program of Port Construction in Bulgaria" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 12.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session11/12
One Hundred Years Settlement of the Verna’s Breakwater - Construction on Soft Clay Like a Typical Example from University Program of Port Construction in Bulgaria
Arlington, Virginia
The breakwater of the bigger Bulgarian Black See Port has erected in the first years of the XX-th century near Varna. Soon after the complained of its construction considerable settlements have appeared. Some times during the one hundred years superstructures and gravity increasing on the soil around the breakwater have made. The last restoration has made around 30 years ago and after that – 10 years later too when concrete tetrapodes have laid before the structure. Thereafter the settlements are continuing. The investigations and studies point out local no stability soil. It is delay to apply a send bed, known from the classical examples La Spetzia (Italy) and Kobe (Japan). Now a new restoration and protection is executing. Many small caissons in chess order on the See bottom before the structure have to increase the grave and the weight, to break the waves like underwater breakwater, to decrease the bottom velocities and totally to protect the stability and to stop the settlements. Schemas, profiles, history of the construction, decisions are shown in the report.
