Cargo Pendulation Reduction on Ship-Mounted Cranes

It is sometimes necessary to transfer cargo from a large ship to a smaller ship at sea. Specially designed craneships are used for this task, however the wave-induced motions of the ship can cause large pendulations of cargo being hoisted by a ship-mounted crane. This makes cargo transfer in rough s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henry, Ryan J.
Other Authors: Engineering Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10037
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-070899-145159