Abstract: Wave damping by wave‐soil interactions is examined quantitatively. The dispersion relation is obtained explicitly. It is found that the Coulomb friction between soil grains is by far the most important wave damping mechanism ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new and unique method of measuring the directional spectra of ocean surface waves with a buried instrument containing horizontally oriented seismometers and a pressure sensor. Based upon the assumption ...

Abstract: Wave damping and motion of clay beds are measured in a wave tank for various soil and wave conditions. The propagator matrix theory for continuously layered plasto‐elastic beds is used to model the wave‐soil interactions. ...

Abstract: A previously developed technique, used mainly in seismology and geophysics, has been adopted to determine the shear modulus from soil displacements measured during wave tank experiments. This iterative inversion technique ...

Abstract: A Froude‐Mach similitude law for sea‐seabed interaction phenomena is established from the nonlinear Coulomb‐damped poro‐elastic theory recently developed. Generally, the similitude law requires that the three Mach numbers ...