Deep Water Mooring Dynamics

Marine Structures

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-209

  Mavrakos, S A ^a   Papazoglou, V J ^a   Triantafyllou, M S ^b   Hatjigeorgiou, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenary mooring; Mooring dynamics; Mooring experiments

Indexed keywords

CABLE DYNAMICS; DEEP WATER; MOORING LINES; SUBMERGED BUOYS;

BUOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MOORING CABLES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CATENARY MOORING; DEEP WATER MOORING;

MOORING;

EID: 0029669107     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8339(94)00019-O     Document Type: Article

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