✦ LIBER ✦
Torsional failure of a wire rope mooring line during installation in deep water
✍ Scribed by C.R. Chaplin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 948 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1350-6307
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✦ Synopsis
During the deployment of mooring components for an FPSO in deep water excessive torsional distortion was induced which led to failure of all six spiral strand mooring ropes[ A mechanism has been investigated which accounts for the failures[ The following issues are fundamental to the incident being considered] , the di}erent torque:tension characteristics of chain and wire rope , the sensitivity of di}erent components to twist , the interactions between chain and a work wire[