INNOVATIONS
LEADING MOORING LINE CALCULATION SOFTWARE
The International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) has endorsed a mooring line calculation software package, CALMAR, designed by world leading buoy manufacturer Mobilis.
The manufacturer has supplied the marine industry with robust, IALA compliant and cost-effective navigation, mooring and zone marking buoys for more than 20 years.
EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR
Mobilis, which is exclusively distributed in the UK by Hydrosphere UK Ltd, developed the sophisticated numerical catenary mooring line calculator to enable quick and easy evaluation of all the environmental forces acting on a moored buoy.
As a result, moorings have often ended up being too short when weather conditions deteriorate.
CONSIDERATION FACTORS
Based on Mobilis’ mooring calculation bank, the new IALA approved software integrates more load parameters than other calculators and takes into consideration maximum depth of water, surface wind generated current, current drag on the mooring line, drag force caused by wave height drift, increasing drag coefficient due to biological fouling on the buoy hull and chain and buoy immersion and drag increasing as the mooring load increases.
This allows for the exact equilibrium of buoy displacement, lifted catenary chain loads and horizontal drags to be calculated. “At Mobilis we have been calculating moorings using a full analysis method for more than 20 years and have not experienced a
‘THREE TIMES THE DEPTH’ RULE
Many people around the world still use ‘three times the depth’ rule, explained David Henry, Naval Architect for Mobilis. “The rule of thumb does not take into account the various drag forces exerted on the buoy and mooring by maximum site environmental conditions or the linear mass of the chain, both of which make a considerable difference to the necessary catenary length,” he said.
REEF SUBSEA BUOY MODELS
CALMAR allows users to input or use libraries of buoy models, build their own buoy model for calculation and compare the results between two different buoys or two different buoys’ mooring lines.
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single buoy mooring line breakage over several thousand buoy mooring specifications.”
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