Surface Mooring Survivability in the Littoral Regime

Abstract

Research on cyclic fatigue of mooring components has shown that it is possible to quantify fatigue failure of mooring components. However, there does not exist at this time a specific design procedure or manual that can be passed on to oceanographic engineers for designing future moorings, especially those having hardware that has not been previously tested in the laboratory. The objective of this project was to develop and document a set of design procedures for shallow water moorings that can easily be applied by oceanographic engineers to quantify fatigue damage in any type of mooring component.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA397779

Entities

People

  • Mark A. Grosenbaugh
  • Richard P. Trask

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Contracts
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fatigue Life
  • Fatigue Tests (Mechanics)
  • Information Operations
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Load Cells
  • Military Research
  • Oceanographic Engineering
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Shallow Water
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Technical Information Centers

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  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Software Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.