.... Introduction Passing ships create disturbances in the water which result in forces on other ships and floating structures. Such hydrodynamic forces can result in high mooring forces and unacceptable motions of the moored vessels. In extreme cases, mooring lines of ships have parted which in one case, see NTSB...

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... throughout the deepwater development cycle are provided. Introduction In recent years several new generation DP vessels have been contracted to undertake deepwater completion operations rather than use the conventional moored vessel option. The decision to use the DP vessel is based on the operational...

..., which involves simple calculation, in contrast with more complex calculation procedures. INTRODUCTION The problem of predicting the low frequency motions of moored vessels has primarily concentrated on the calculation of the second order wave drift forces that provide the excitation for such motions...

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... ABSTRACT In the last ten years computer simulation programs for SPM moored vessels have been developed by several authors. At present the application of such programs, if at all, is limited to some preliminary calculations in the very early design stage. The reasons for the reluctance to apply...

... ABSTRACT The problem of modelling and forecasting the sway motion response of a moored vessel to random sea waves is discussed. When the sea wave fluctuation is measured and recorded digitally with a proper sampling rate, the future response of the vessel can be actually predicted...

... the second order wave drift forces acting on the moored vessel in head waves have been expanded to the low frequency surge displacement and surge velocity. The wave damping can be defined by taking into account the dependence on velocity of the second order wave drift forces. To verify the results, model...

... current load moored vessel calculation method aTC 4530 Steady Wind- and Current-Induced Loads on Moored Vessels by P,A. Palo, U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory This paper was presented at the 15th Annual OTe in Houston, Texas, May 2-5,1983. The material is subject to correction by the author...

... coefficient barge vessel response moored vessel Abstract Safe mooring of structures such as construction vessels, crane barges or pipe laying barges in shallow, unprotected waters presents unique problems. This is a consequence of the limited allowable horizontal excursion of the moored vessel due...

... strategies which are shown to achieve significant reductions in the peak hawser loads while enabling the moored vessel to weather-vane under the natural action of wind, waves and current with the hawser carrying only the mean environmental loading. This research programmed at Herriot-Watt University...

... ABSTRACT With the development in the last few years of computational techniques for calculating slow drift forces on moored vessels, it has become in princ1ple possible to predict the motions and loads in SPM systems by computer. A number of authors have reported developing time-history...

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... effects of passing distance, speed and size of the passing tanker are shown. It will be discussed how the response of the moored vessel may be calculated from the exciting forces measured. A calculation of the lateral motion of a tanker moored by means of linear springs illustrates the calculation...

..., scope, pretension, mooring pattern, and offset. In the paper, a design process is described whereby the DP controller parameters and their func- tionalizations are derived for smooth stable response through the operating regime of the moored vessel. Field results from a North Sea operating drillship...

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