Achoring and sinking the caissons in the construction of coastal engineering

Abstract

    The caissons has to be built in a construction dock that is in the site satisfying the advantageous conditions and then sailing to the gap.The disadvantages of caisson placement procedure are anchorage and sinking.The problem of a moored caisson is more complicated than the problem of unrestrained caisson motion. There ara three additional periods (surge, sway and yaw) and the restoring force (elasticity and cable weight) is nonlinear. Because of the complexity of the calculation some simple cases only will be discussed in this paper.