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This paper investigates, mainly from laboratory experiments, the breaking of standing two-components composite and irregular waves which are formed by a combination of the waves incident to, and reflected from, a vertical wall having a perfect reflection condition.First, the critical wave steepness of a partial standing wave in the regular wave field is proposed and its validity is confirmed by the experiments. Next, the breaking of the standing two-components composite and irregular waves is discussed. Three different kinds of breaking patterns are revealed to take place in laboratory experiments and they are classified according to the ratio of the reflected envelope wave height to the incident envelope wave height. The semi-empirical breaking limit of the standing irregular wave is proposed.
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