Seakeeping performance of a containment boom section in random waves and currents

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 143-172

  Kim, M H ^a   Muralidharan, S ^a   Kee, S T ^a   Johnson, R P ^a   Seymour, R J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

FLOATING BOOM; SEAKEEPING;

OIL BOOMS;

BUOYANCY; CURRENT; WAVE;

CURRENT VELOCITY; FLOATING BARRIERS; SEAKEEPING CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 0032008115     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(97)00001-2     Document Type: Article

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