Interaction between mooring line damping and response frequency as a result of stiffness alteration in surge

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Johanning, Lars ^a   Smith, George H ^a   Wolfram, Julian ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floating wave energy converter; Mooring line damping; Mooring response frequency; Stiffness characteristics

Indexed keywords

MOORING PROPERTIES; MOORING RESPONSE FREQUENCY; STIFFNESS CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS (WEC);

DAMPING; MOORING CABLES; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33751309803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2006-92373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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