Assessment of the Performance of an Artificial Reef Made of Modular Elements through Small Scale Experiments

Artificial reefs have proven to be an optimal and effective solution in stabilizing coastlines around the world. They are submerged structures that imitate protection service provided by natural accomplishing functions of dissipating wave energy protecting beach morphology, but also being ecological solution. In this paper, 2D small-scale experiments were performed analyze hydrodynamic, morphological, behavior artificial reef constructed modular elements. Two typical beach-dune profiles a flume over which two locations tested. From these tests, transmission coefficients obtained as well profile response presence reef. These results used discuss about performance The proposed showed good morphological while its hydrodynamic function had limited success. turn, ecologic was theoretically addressed.