Hydraulics and Environment Department
Ports and Maritime Structures Unit
Infrastructures
| NPE owns a testing hall for hydraulic tests with an area of 6,500 square meters. This hall is mostly occupied with testing flumes and basins for hydraulic model studies. Basins are used for three-dimensional studies of structure stability and wave penetration. Flumes are used for stability and overtopping tests of maritime structures. |
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Main equipment |
Wave basins
Wave flumes
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Other equipment |
Wave generators
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In the testing hall there is a Control Room where a centralised control of the entire irregular wave flumes and basins resides. This Control Room also receives all electric signals that convey information from models (resistive probes, force and movement sensors, video, intercoms). Also in the Control Room it resides SAM computer software package that includes a set of methods for the characterization and numerical and physical simulation of sea waves (including wave groups) and processing wave data either from nature or from the wave flumes and tanks. This software also allows the dynamic absorption of unwanted reflected waves existing in the flumes. Real-time viewing of ongoing experimental tests may be accessed remotely through web streaming. |
