In order to prevent excessive coastal erosion engineers often create revetments, structures designed to absorb the energy of the incoming waves before they strike the coast. It seems to be the law that the pieces used to create these structures must have strange names.
And there are many others found at the Coastal Defence Object Institute blog that I couldn’t find names for:
im sorry but these arent revetments there man made rip rap
Nice collection – i’ve been struggling to find the names of these various designs for a while, thanks for putting this list together!
In Romania, such an element is called “stabilopod”.
Carl Steel,
Looks like they’re interchangeable terms or different facets of the engineering design.
Carl Steel,
Here’s where I came across both terms used in the same document. Have to study it a little further for myself to see how they distinguish the terms from one another.
https://www.conteches.com/knowledge-center/pdh-article-series/revetment-design-considerations