Section 7: VESSEL MOORING EQUIPMENT GUIDELINESIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Types of Mooring Equipment . . . . . . . 143
Equipment Specification . . . . . . . . . 143
Fixed Bitts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Recessed Shell Bitts . . . . . . . . . . 144
Exterior Shell Bitts . . . . . . . . . . 144
Chocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Allowable Hull Pressures . . . . . . . . 144
Sources of Information for Ships’
Mooring Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Section 8 EXAMPLE PROBLEMSIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Single Point Mooring - Basic Approach . . 151
Background for Example . . . . . . . . . 153
Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Forces/Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Quasi-Static Design . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Mooring Hawser Break . . . . . . . . . . 154
Fixed Mooring - Basic Approach . . . . . 157
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Forces/Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Preliminary Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 158
Wharf Mooring Concept . . . . . . . . . . 163
Spread Mooring - Basic Approach . . . . . 168
Background for Example . . . . . . . . . 168
Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Forces/Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Anchor Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Number of Mooring Legs . . . . . . . . . 173
Static Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Anchor Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179