Innovative guidance structure: Technical and economical feasibility cable variant

Guidance structures are built in the vicinity of a sluice complex to serve as berth for ships waiting for the sluice to be available. The structure is loaded by the ship and should stop the ship without being damaged. The design of a guidance structure did not significantly change over the last decades. Therefore one could talk about a...

Hydrodynamic forces on slender cylinders oscillating transversely in a current

The study of the hydrodynamic interaction of cables has become more important in recent years since umbilical cables of more than 3000 meters length have been used when photographing the wreck of the HMS Titanic or the Bismarck. Cable vibration can cause distorting of the digital signals being transmitted as well as premature fatigue failure of...