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| | COASTAL MOORING DESIGN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | A 15-m storm wave requires a taut mooring tether with an elastic stretch of <1 percent in 2,000 m of water, 8 percent in 200 m of water, 46 percent in 40 m or water, and 120 percent in 20 m of water. |
 | | This extension is required to prevent the buoy being pulled under by the passing wave peak. |
 | | From cyclic tests of synthetic fiber ropes, which are textile structures, not elastomeric bodies, it is known that the long term Young’s modulus in cyclic extension tests can be two to three times the value of the initial response in rapid cyclic loading. |
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