Abstract
An approach by which the scour depth and protection layer width around the head of vertical-wall breakwaters, the scour and deposition depths as well as the protection layer widths at the round head of rubble-mound breakwaters in random waves can be derived is presented. Here the formulas for scour depth by Sumer and Fredsoe (1997) for vertical-wall breakwaters for regular waves and Fredsoe and Sumer (1997) for rubble-mound breakwaters for irregular waves are used. They are combined with describing the waves as a stationary Gaussian narrow-band random process to derive the scour and deposition depths as well as protection layer widths in random waves. Comparisons are made between the present approach and the Fredsoe and Sumer (1997) random wave scour data for rubble-mound breakwaters. Abstract Copyright (2004) Elsevier, B.V.