Degradation of rope properties under increasing monotonic load

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 826-844

  Beltran, Juan Felipe ^a   Williamson, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage; Degradation; Mooring systems; Rope; Synthetic fibers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLIC LOADS; DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENSILE TESTING;

DAMAGE INDEX; EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS; MONOTONIC LOADS; SYNTHETIC-FIBER LOADS;

ROPE;

FIBER; MOORING LINE; MOORING LOAD; MOORING SYSTEM; ROPE;

EID: 14544267162     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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