Excerpt from Wave Transmission and Mooring-Force Characteristics of Pipe-Tire Floating Breakwaters This report is published to provide coastal engineers the results of a series of prototype-scale tests of a floating breakwater that incorporates massive cylindrical members (steel or concrete pipes, telephone poles, etc.) in a matrix of scrap truck or automobile tires. The breakwater, which was developed. By the senior author 'while serving: on the faculty' of the State University of New York at Buffalo (suny), is referred to as the pipe-tire Breakwater (pt-breakwater). Tests were conducted in the large wave tank at the u.s. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (cerc) in a joint effort by cerc and suny personnel. The work was carried out under cerc's Design of Floating Breakwaters work unit, Coastal Structure Evaluation and Design Program, Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works Research and Development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.