Static sling tensions in heavy lifts with doubled sling arrangement

International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-319

  Choo, Y S ^a,b   Ju, F ^a   Lee, K H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ISOPE ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Doubled sling; Heavy lift; Static tension

Indexed keywords

CRANES; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FORCE SPLIT RATIO; FRICTION COEFFICIENT; STATIC SLING TENSIONS;

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

CRANE; LIFT; MODEL; SEMISUBMERSIBLE;

CRANES; LIFTING TACKLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; SEMISUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM; SLINGS;

EID: 0031430551     PISSN: 10535381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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