Research Article

Mooring Line Damping Estimation for a Floating Wind Turbine

Table 2

Properties of ITI Energy barge.

ItemValue

Width × length (m)40 × 40
Draft (m)4
Water displacement (m3)6000
Mass, including ballast (kg)5452000
CM location below still water level (m)0.2818
Roll inertia about CM (kg·m2)726900000
Pitch inertia about CM (kg·m2)726900000
Yaw inertia about CM (kg·m2)1454000000
Number of mooring lines8
Depth to fairleads, anchors (m)4, 150
Radius to fairleads, anchors (m)28.28, 423.4
Unstretched line length (m)473.3
Line diameter (m)0.0809
Line mass density (kg/m)130.4
Line extensional stiffness (N)589000000