Torsional failure of a wire rope mooring line during installation in deep water

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 67-82

  Chaplin, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue assessment; Fatigue design; Load history; Offshore failures; Rope failures

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; ROPE; TENSILE STRESS; TORQUE; TORSIONAL STRESS;

TORSIONAL DISTORTION;

MOORING CABLES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE ANALYSIS; FLOATING PRODUCTION SYSTEM; MOORING LINE; STORAGE VESSEL; TORSION; WIRE;

EID: 0033117916     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-6307(98)00043-0     Document Type: Article

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