Sentence examples for mooring cable from inspiring English sources

The two limiting cases of no mooring cable (freely floating inner and outer cylinders) and an infinitely stiff mooring cable (fixed inner cylinder) were also considered.

A mooring cable is attached to the bottom of the inner cylinder.

In particular, when connected to the tension-leg mooring cable, the natural frequency of the floating body appeared suddenly at 0.391 Hz as the wave period increased.

This paper aims to examine the effect of the stiffness of the mooring cable on the performance of the coaxial-cylinder WEC system.

To ensure high reliability, the profile of the mooring cable connecting the fairlead and the pad-eye must be accurately designed.

As the period of the oncoming waves changed, the movement of the floating body was substantially different when tethered to a tension-leg mooring cable.

Seiches may disturb shipping by generating strong reversible currents at the entrances to harbours or by causing moored vessels to oscillate against their mooring cables and break free.

There are about a dozen important species of sessile and pedunculate barnacles that foul ships and submerged portions of marine installations, such as pier pilings, oil platforms, floats, buoys, and mooring cables.

This paper focuses on modelling snap loads in mooring cables.

The dock is represented by a lumped mass, the mooring cables by equivalent nonlinear springs and the hydrodynamic forces are modelled by a modified Morison equation.

Practical applications are mainly found in the field of ocean engineering, where long flexible structures such as risers or mooring cables are excited by sea currents.