Wear of axially loaded chains in dry and wet conditions

Title: Wear of axially loaded chains in dry and wet conditions
Creator: Yaghin, Amin Lotfollahi; Melchers, Robert E.
Relation: 25th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2015). Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth (2015) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (Kailua-Kona, HI 21-26 June, 2015) p. 1478-1482
Publisher: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2015
Description: The safety of mooring lines used for maritime floating structures is of considerable importance since they may be damaged by storm waves and by material deterioration. This paper considers chain wear and reports on results of a study on the effect of water on wear rate of chains. For this purpose, a specially-designed laboratory test rig was used to wear the surfaces of inter-link zones of chain sets under static axial load. The results show that tensile force has a significant but nonlinear effect on wear rate and that wet conditions reduce the wear rate to a considerable extent.
Subject: steel chains; wear rate; mooring systems; adhesive wear
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1330627
Identifier: uon:26434
Identifier: ISBN:9781880653890
Language: eng
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