Measurement of Impact Forces for Different Types of Tsunami Waves

For the past few years, a lot of laboratory investigations have been done in order to investigate the behavior of Tsunami impact force. Based on past researches, waves from Tsunami came with a lot of ambiguous conditions. In order to predict the Tsunami waves condition specifically in wave’s impact force, this project is carried out. Experimental tests have been performed in measuring impact forces from different types of waves generated by different solid blocks. In this project, the setup of experiment is taken based on sub-aerial landslide modelling which is one of the factors that can generate Tsunami waves. The setup of experiment used three (3) solid blocks with different volume to be slid into the water, steel platform that acts as a bed slope, concrete flume as a medium to generate waves, three (3) wave probes to investigate the wave profile and load cells to measure and record the impact forces. The depth of water, bed slope, height of slope are constant whereby volume of solid blocks used, shape of solid blocks and the wave elevations are the manipulated variable in this experiment. The responding variable in this experiment is the impact forces measured by the load cells.