ASCE Study Finds Seawalls Were Effective in Tsunami
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Article Description| ASCE’s Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI) studied the effects of the giant wave as it came ashore and surveyed damage at five beaches in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. The on-site study team of nine engineers found that the destruction could have been even worse because "seawalls slowed the wave and deflected its horizontal momentum vertically," says Robert ... |
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