Accession Number:

ADA183425

Title:

A Summary of the SEACON Mooring Validation Experiment

Descriptive Note:

Technical note Oct 1984-Apr 1986

Corporate Author:

NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CA

Personal Author(s):

• Palo, Paul A.
• McAllister, Therese
• Karnoski, Steve

Report Date:

1987-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

75.0

Abstract:

This report presents full scale data collected in a comprehensive mooring test of a 2,300-edt construction barge, moored with wire rope in 50 feet of water. Wind, current, and wave excitations and all mooring system responses were measured. Measurements included static, slowly varying, and dynamic responses in slack and taut four-point moorings. Additional tests were conducted to determine single-point mooring behavior and vessel loads due to steady wind and current only. The results are summarized in the form of autospectra, probability density functions, frequency response functions, and associated uncertainty levels. Keywords Current loads cable structures vessel moorings vessel response cable dynamics hydrodynamics offshore construction platform.

Descriptors:

• *MOORING
• BARGES
• BEHAVIOR
• CABLES
• CONSTRUCTION
• DYNAMIC RESPONSE
• DYNAMICS
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE
• HYDRODYNAMICS
• MECHANICAL CABLES
• OCEAN CURRENTS
• OCEAN WAVES
• OFFSHORE
• PLATFORMS
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• RESPONSE
• SHIPS
• STEADY STATE
• STRUCTURES
• VALIDATION
• WIND
• WIRE ROPE

Subject Categories:

• Civil Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE