. Designing a U-style mooring for use with current Oceanography. Consider a segment or section of mooring cable (Figure B-l). The only forces acting on the cable are gravity, buoyancy, and Y V 4J *1 ^^*i\ wi ^ ? XT Y Y^ 1^1 FIGURE B-l - EACH CABLE SECTION IS ACTED UPON BY SEVERAL FORCES. In F-igure B-l, F. is the force per unit length due to drag when the cable section is normal to the flow, W. is the cable section weight. ©<. is the angle between the cable section and the vertical. Y. and X. are the vertical and horizontal 1 1 components of cable tension. Summing the hor
. Designing a U-style mooring for use with current Oceanography. Consider a segment or section of mooring cable (Figure B-l). The only forces acting on the cable are gravity, buoyancy, and Y V 4J *1 ^^*i\ wi ^ ? XT Y Y^ 1^1 FIGURE B-l - EACH CABLE SECTION IS ACTED UPON BY SEVERAL FORCES. In F-igure B-l, F. is the force per unit length due to drag when the cable section is normal to the flow, W. is the cable section weight. ©<. is the angle between the cable section and the vertical. Y. and X. are the vertical and horizontal 1 1 components of cable tension. Summing the horizontal and vertical forces on the cable section and taking moments of the forces on the cable section about the midpoint: 1. X . = X . + F . cos3* . 1111 2. -W. - *. sin * . l 1111 l 3. tancx. = 2X. + l _i li 2Y. - W. l l The configuration of the taut portion of the mooring was determined by solving for the forces in each successive cable section. Equilibrium requires that X'. equal X. and 72. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Picciulo, Jonathan Monterey, California: U. S. Naval Postgraduate School
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