| 发明名称 | Mooring component having a smooth stress-strain response to high loads | ||
| 摘要 | A mooring component comprises a plurality of different deformable elements formed of an elastomeric material. The component has a tensile length L and at least one of the elements has a length L′<L. As the mooring component comprises a plurality of different elastomeric elements, each having its own unique elastic (i.e. reversible) stress-strain response, the overall response of the component is a composite elastic response resulting from a combination of the responses of each of the plurality of elastomeric elements. The mooring component can form part of a mooring system for floating devices and sea-based structures such as renewable energy devices, including wave energy conversion devices, tidal turbines and tidal platforms, fish farms, oil rigs and off-shore wind farms, especially in low scope or high variability environments. | ||
| 申请公布号 | US9308969(B2) | 申请公布日期 | 2016.04.12 |
| 申请号 | US201214006481 | 申请日期 | 2012.03.22 |
| 申请人 | Technology From Ideas Limited | 发明人 | McEvoy Paul |
| 分类号 | B63B21/00;B63B21/20 | 主分类号 | B63B21/00 |
| 代理机构 | Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC | 代理人 | Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC |
| 主权项 | 1. A mooring component comprising at least one tensile element and at least one compressive element, both the tensile and compressive elements being configured to undergo strain in response to a tensile stress wherein the at least one tensile element is connected in the mooring component such that the at least one tensile element gives a tensile response providing a tensile force as the at least one tensile element is stretched as the mooring component undergoes extension and, the at least one compressive element is connected in the mooring component such that the at least one compressive element is compressed in response to extension of the mooring component beyond a certain threshold wherein the at least one tensile element and the at least one compressive element are formed of an elastomeric material. | ||
| 地址 | Waterford IE | ||