Sentence examples for mooring chains from inspiring English sources

Three miles of mooring chains.

Finally, in places where the tide range is of consequence, special mooring arrangements are necessary to restrain excessive lateral drift of the dock as the mooring chains become slack on low water.

The panoply of weapons used in the punting wars is said to include stink bombs thrown from bridges to render a rival's boat inoperable, washing up liquid squirted to make it too slippery for the punter to stand, and bolt-cutters to snap mooring chains.

Laboratory experiments are described to determine the rate of wear of model (i.e. small-scale) mooring chains for up to 200,000 wear cycles.

The effect of structural aging with time due to corrosion of mooring chains is considered, and thus, risk is assumed as time-evolved.

The results indicate that the reliability level decreases significantly with the increasing corrosion depth and the correlation of corrosion model for mooring chains has a remarkable impact on the failure probability of mooring system.

Comparison with experimental data gives excellent results, including snap load propagation in a mooring chain.

Influences of the incident wave height, incident wave period, orifice area, mooring chain length, and mooring point position on its capture width ratio are also investigated.

In this paper, three different microalloyed steels were designed to investigate the effect of V on hydrogen trapping and diffusion in mooring chain steel by electrochemical hydrogen permeation technique and Atom Probe Tomography (APT).

According to the results, the addition of V in mooring chain steel can decrease the hydrogen diffusion coefficient, and the calculated activation energy for hydrogen revealed that vanadium carbide nanoparticles in steel can trap hydrogen effectively.

Fatigue design of the mooring line considering OPB/IPB out-of-plane bending/in-plane bending) became an essential factOPB/IPB out-of-planet OPB/IPB out-of-plane failure of the mooring chain due to OPB/IPB in the Girassol region in West Africa.