Mooring forces and motion responses of pontoon-type floating breakwaters

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-48

  Sannasiraj, S A ^a   Sundar, V ^a   Sundaravadivelu, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOORING; MOORING CABLES; PONTOONS; STIFFNESS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

PONTOON-TYPE FLOATING BREAKWATERS;

FLOATING BREAKWATERS;

BREAKWATER; MOORING LINE; MOORING LOAD;

BREAKWATERS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FLOATING BARRIERS; MOORING LINES;

EID: 0031986282     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(96)00044-3     Document Type: Article

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