An Analysis of a Slack Towline.

Abstract

An important consideration in towed system dynamics is the determination of the conditions that cause the towline to become slack. The slack towline creates a problem in that the recapture of the free-falling body causes the system to experience large tensile forces. Sudden applications of high tensions often cause the towline to eventually fracture, with resulting loss of the towed body. This memorandum presents an analysis of slack line dynamics. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 27, 1969
Accession Number
ADA067030

Entities

People

  • J. W. Schram
  • S. Rupinski

Organizations

  • Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Bodies
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Destroyers
  • Displacement
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Falling Bodies
  • Potential Energy
  • Ships
  • Square Roots
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional
  • Towed Bodies
  • Underwater Sound

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Economics