A mooring fatigue assessment for mooring chain links of a semi-submersible in Offshore
West Africa (OWA) is presented. Three cases that mooring chain links are subjected to pure …

Abstract The American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice on Design and Analysis
of Stationkee** Systems for Floating Structures (API RP 2SK) provides guidance on the …

Abstracts In this paper, the effects of underwater-chain-stopper (UCS) bearing friction at
fairlead connection and time-varying interlink EI (bending stiffness) at the UCS exit on the …

Station-kee** capability of offshore oil rig is important so that mooring integrity become a
critical design factor. Several unexpected accidents of chain mooring failure were related to …

This paper focuses on the rigorous and holistic fatigue analysis of mooring chains for a deep
draft semi-submersible platform in the challenging environment of the central Gulf of Mexico …

Abstract Out of Plane Bending (OPB) fatigue of mooring chains has been the subject of
several studies, of which the most comprehensive was the “Chain Out of Plane Bending” JIP …

In this dissertation, five subjects which are related to offshore structure (mooring lines and
risers) performance assessment and monitoring will discuss mainly such as chain mooring …

In floating offshore wind (FOW) mooring systems a component or system failure may have a
broad variety of consequences ranging from a relatively minor change in performance all the …

When a chain link is constrained from free rotation such as over a fairlead, the chain link is
subjected to an out-of-plane bending (OPB) moment in addition to tension. Much research …

The effect of out-of-plane bending (OPB) on the fatigue life of moorings has been the focus
of extensive study over the last 15 years. Classification societies now require it to be …