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Junrong Wang, Chunlei He, Dianfu Fu, Kuang He and Junfeng Du
Fatigue failure caused by frequent tension and bending loads is a crucial safety concern for mooring chains used on floating structures in the oil and gas industry. The bending effect for a chain?s fatigue is usually not considered by existing fatigue an...
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Xiaofei Cheng, Shimin Li and Gang Wang
In this paper, a yacht project in Tingjiang Town, Mawei, Fujian, is suggested as an example of a barge type breakwater made out of scrap barges. The physical modelling of a two-dimensional flume wave test was carried out on a barge-type breakwater, focus...
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Vincenzo Piscopo, Antonio Scamardella, Giovanni Battista Rossi, Francesco Crenna and Marta Berardengo
The fatigue assessment of mooring lines for floating offshore wind turbines represents a challenging issue not only for the reliable design of the stationkeeping system but also for the economic impact on the installation and maintenance costs over the e...
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Yuanzhen Cai, Milad Bazli, Asanka P. Basnayake, Martin Veidt and Michael T. Heitzmann
Ocean energy is an underutilized renewable energy source compared with hydropower and wind power. Therefore, the development of economical and efficient wave energy converters (WECs) is important and crucial for offshore power generation. The mooring ten...
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Xiaolong Zhang, Nanni Noël-Hermes, Gabriele Ferrari and Martijn Hoogeland
Corrosion of mooring chains is regarded as one of main threats to the offshore mooring systems. Localized corrosion is even more dangerous than uniform corrosion because it may not show significant mass loss but it can cause stress concentration and init...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Cole Chesterton, Harrison Obed Butler, Facheng Wang and Jianqiao Ye
Due to the demand for oil production in varying water depth regions, the advantage of flexible buoyant conduits has led to an increase in bonded marine hoses for fluid transfer and (un)loading operations. The fluid transfer system for bonded marine hoses...
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Vytautas Paulauskas, Martynas Simutis, Birute Placiene, Raimondas Barzd?iukas, Martynas Jonkus and Donatas Paulauskas
Port tugs are an important element in port activity and navigational safety issues. Port tugs ensure the safety of big ships while they are entering, manoeuvring, mooring and unmooring, and are of huge importance during other port operations. At the same...
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Kauê L. Martins, Vinícius T. Pinto, Cristiano Fragassa, Mauro V. Real, Luiz A. O. Rocha, Liércio A. Isoldi and Elizaldo D. dos Santos
The present work develops a simplified computational methodology to predict brackets? mechanical behavior to support mooring systems? fairleads under maximum environmental loads. The methodology consists of estimating environmental loads in Campos?s basi...
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Hui Yang, Yun-Peng Zhao, Chun-Wei Bi and Yong Cui
Enclosure aquaculture is a healthy and ecological aquaculture pattern developed in recent years to relieve the pressure due to the wild fish stock decline and water pollution. The object of this paper was a floating rope enclosure, which mainly consisted...
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Zhixin Zhao, Xin Li, Wenhua Wang and Wei Shi
An initial design of the platform for the moderate water depth (100 m) is performed by upscaling of an existing 5 MW braceless semi-submersible platform design to support the DTU (Danish University of Science and Technology) 10 MW wind turbine. To invest...
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