Akmon

Akmons protecting the runway at Wellington International Airport from Cook Strait.

An akmon is a multi-tonne concrete block used for breakwater and seawall armouring. It was originally designed in the Netherlands in the 1960s, as an improvement on the tetrapod.

References

Development of Concrete Breakwater Armour Units, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 2003.

External links

Official site (Japanese)

Coastal management

Management	Coastal management Accretion Integrated coastal zone management Managed retreat Submersion

Hard engineering	A-jack Accropode Akmon Artificial reef Breachway Breakwater Cliff stabilization Dolos Flood wall Floodgate Gabion Groyne Levee Hard engineering Honeycomb sea wall Hudson's equation KOLOS Revetment Riprap Seawall Tetrapod Training wall Xbloc

Soft engineering	Beach nourishment Beach drainage Living shorelines Sand dune stabilization Soft engineering Soft shore remediation

Related topics	Beach evolution Coastal erosion Land reclamation Longshore transport Modern recession of beaches

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