Abstract

When designing the submerged floating tunnel, beside the dead load and the vehicle load, the environment (water surround) has an important impact on the submerged floating tunnel. It differs from soil (static environment) because water is a movable environment. Therefore the submerged floating tunnel is affected by many movable factors such as: wave, wind, flow, tide ... They cause oscillation and forces to the tunnel as Morison called: inertia force, drag force and lift force. In this paper, the authors only analyze and calculate the effect of wave to submerged floating tunnel.