Sentence examples for mooring spread from inspiring English sources

The development, known as Hywind Scotland, differs from conventional offshore windfarms by using turbines attached to the seabed by a three-point mooring spread and anchoring system.

That dialect arose in Cantabria in the 9th century around the town of Burgos in north-central Spain (Old Castile) and, as Spain was reconquered from the Moors, spread southward to central Spain New Castilee) around Madrid and Toledo by the 11th century.

To predict seakeeping performance of the OC3-Hywind platfOC3, a OC3 spar model moored by a 3-leg catenary spread mooring system with a delta connection was built with a 1/128 scale ratio.

These units are usually moored to the seabed through a spread mooring system.

This paper addresses the dynamic positioning of surface vessels moored to the seabed via a turret based spread mooring system, an operation referred to as the position mooring.

A design methodology is developed to reveal the dependence of slow motion dynamics of spread mooring systems (SMS) on several design parameters, such as riser location, water depth, length and fairlead of mooring lines, orientation and pretension in the mooring lines.

Spread mooring systems are associated with high level uncertainties and risks during tanker loading/unloading operations.

A cylindrical, floating WEC with four spread mooring lines is chosen as case study.

It was deployed with an 8-point spread mooring configuration to maintain its shape in a 0.51 m/s current and 0.75 m waves.

The fuzzy methodology incorporates qualitative and partially known information into the decision support model and provides a robust mathematical framework for modeling of the spread mooring systems.

The dynamics of a floating vessel with its spread mooring and riser subjected to environmental excitation from current, wind, and waves is studied to investigate the effect of riser dynamics on the stability and bifurcation sequences of stationkeeping.