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Characteristic of tsunami force acting on shelter with mooring

Applied Ocean Research, 2017
Abstract Tsunami shelter has been designed and built as a refuges in case tsunami occurs. In recent year, different kinds of tsunami shelter have been proposed and developed, which is either a building type or a floating one. The main purpose of this research is to propose a new type of tsunami shelter with elastic mooring in comparison with a fixed ...
Hidemi Mutsuda, Yasuaki Doi
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Prelude Turret Mooring System: A 10,000-Ton Mooring Force Challenge

Offshore Technology Conference, 2020
Abstract The Turret Mooring System (TMS) for the Shell Prelude FLNG (Floating Liquefied Natural Gas) facility consists of a Top Mounted Internal Turret (TMIT) integrated at the bow of the FLNG hull. Permanently connected to the seabed through a dedicated mooring system, this Turret allows the FLNG facility to passively weathervane in ...
Francois Betthaeuser, Vincent Mazarguil, Mamoun Naciri, Timothee Lefebvre, Stephen Masterton, Ewoud Van Haaften   +5 more
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Berthing and Mooring Forces

Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division, 1962
The determination of forces between the vessel and the dock during berthing depends on a large number of assumptions. An empirical formula is presented that represents average practice.
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Dynamic mooring-forces allocation in dynamic ship positioning

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 1989
The design of a dynamic positioning system for a multiply-moored vessel with active winches and thrusters is presented. The proposed positioning system is based on Kalman filter and linear optimal control. Its peculiarity is that it contains a scheme which allocates dynamically the control forces between moorings and thrusters.
AMBROSINO, GIUSEPPE, GAROFALO, FRANCESCO, L. Glielmo   +2 more
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Forced mobilities, new moorings

2016
Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal; Volume 2016 (2); Issue 2; Seitenzahl: 11-13; ISSN: 2413-9181;
Rolshoven, Johanna, Schlör, Joachim
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Evaluation of Mooring Forces

Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division, 1962
Study of active and semiactive moorings along mooring facilities; method of evaluation of natural and operational mooring forces including atmospheric disturbances, dynamic pressure of currents, drag force or frictional resistance, stimulated pull, yawing or rolling of berthed vessel, and seismic disturbances.
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Predicting the Maximum Mooring Force of a Moored Floating Offshore Structure

23rd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Volume 1, Parts A and B, 2004
The prediction of extreme mooring forces of moored floating offshore platforms due to long-term met-ocean database can be carried out using a response-based method. As the extreme mooring force for a symmetric turret-moored FPSO is related to the extreme platform excursion, the response-based method can be applied to obtain the extreme platform ...
Said Mazaheri, Atilla Incecik
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Investigation Into Scale Effects On Motions And Mooring Forces Of A Turret-Moored Tanker

Offshore Technology Conference, 1994
ABSTRACT A loaded 200 kDWT tanker moored by means of an internal bow-turret is exposed to survival conditions (colinearly directed irregular waves and wind). The water depth amounts to 82.5 m and the turret mooring system consists of 6 equally spaced chains.
Johan Withers, Albert Dercksen
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Totally proper forcing and the Moore–Mrówka problem

Fundamenta Mathematicae, 2003
Summary: We describe a totally proper notion of forcing that can be used to shoot uncountable free sequences through certain countably compact non-compact spaces. This is almost (but not quite!) enough to produce a model of \(\text{ZFC}+\text{CH}\) in which countably tight compact spaces are sequential -- we still do not know if the notion of forcing ...
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Pipe piles under mooring forces

2011
Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) Vessels are widely used in offshore oil and gas industry. In offshore Atlantic Canada, mooring piles driven in the seabed, in water depths ranging from 80 to 200 m, are used to moor these FPSOs. These mooring piles are subjected to oblique pull forces. In this paper, a 3D finite element method has been used
Ramadan M. I., Butt S. D., Popescu R.
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