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Mooring Forces Induced by Passing Ships

Offshore Technology Conference, 1974
Abstract The paper deals with some preliminary results of model tests carried out in the wave and current laboratory of the Netherlands Ship Model Basin to determine the external forces on a tanker, moored in shallow water, as a result of the passage of a large tanker shaped vessel.
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On the Determination of Impact Forces, Mooring Forces and Motions of Supertankers at Marine Terminal

Offshore Technology Conference, 1975
ABSTRACT This paper provides a method to predict:dynamic response of supertankers moored at sea-berth excited by water waves; andrelated mooring forces and impact forces induced to berthing structures. Significant results included:effects of dolphin-fender stiffness on hydrodynamic mass,effects of ...
Theodore T. Lee, S.T. Nagai, K.T. Oda
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Model Study of Mooring Forces of Docked Ship

Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division, 1959
Laboratory data presented on forces induced by water gravity waves in camels and mooring lines of Liberty Ship, moored alongside dock, for waves up to 5 ft in height and with periods up to 120 sec; it was not possible to obtain simple natural periods of surge, sway, etc for this particular mooring arrangement as one motion induced another.
R. L. Wiegel, R. A. Dilley, J. B. Williams   +2 more
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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 ...
Andi Ardianti, Hidemi Mutsuda, Kento Kawawaki, Yasuaki Doi, Takuso Fukuhara   +4 more
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A Load Cell for the Measurement of Slack Mooring Forces

Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, 2014
A load cell for the measurement of mooring forces is designed using the load-strain principles and the same is verified for its efficiency by structural modeling. A model load cell is fabricated and calibrated through laboratory experiments using three axes loading as well as mooring chain catenary principles.
R. Balaji, S. A. Sannasiraj, V. Sundar
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Physical Modelling of Motions and Forces on a Moored Ship at the Leixões Port

Defect and Diffusion Forum, 2019
This paper describes the physical model, experimental setup and tests performed at the Portuguese Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC), to study the motions and forces of a moored ship at the Leixões port, for different sea states in irregular waves.
Santos, João Alfredo, Pinheiro, Liliana, Abdelwahab, Hossam S., Fortes, Conceição, Pedro, Francisco G. L., Capitão, Rui P., Hinostroza, Miguel, Soares, Carlos Guedes   +7 more
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Effect of Characteristics of Mooring Systems and External Forces to Motions of Moored Ships

1988
This paper describes the effect of the characteristics of mooring systems and external forces to motions of moored ships in accordance with model experiment and computations. Here, the differences of ship motions in waves with and without the action from wind will be presented relating to two different load deflection characteristics of mooring systems.
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The Influence Of Directional Spreading Of Waves On Mooring Forces

Offshore Technology Conference, 1988
ABSTRACT In this paper the basic expressions for the computation of mean and low frequency second order wave drift forces on floating structures in directionally spread seas as can be derived from potential theory are discussed.
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Potential Wave Forces on a Moored Vertical Cylinder

1990
In this chapter, analytical expressions are derived for the linear and quadratic potential wave forces acting on a moored, vertical, and surface-piercing cylinder. The forces are described by a second order Volterra series with the linear wave elevation as the input function.
M. G. Donley, P. D. Spanos
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Discussion of “Berthing and Mooring Forces”

Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division, 1962
B. F. Saurin, Basil W. Wilson
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