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© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London. Reliability and safety issues of mooring chains are causing concern in recent years. Accordingly, some efforts have been made for detecting the structural integrity of mooring chains. However, a fully successful mooring chain condition monitoring technique has not been achieved today. This is largely due to the fact that mooring chains are submerged in water and the currently available non-destructive testing technologies are difficult to apply in wet environment. To overcome this issue, a new mooring chain condition monitoring method is studied in this paper with the aid of thermography technique. The research is conducted based on two philosophies, i.e. (1) the mooring chain material has much higher thermal conductivity than that of water. Therefore, when the mooring chain is heated, the thermal energy will transmit mostly inside the chain, rather than dispersing in water; (2) the defects occurring in the mooring chain will disturb the transmission of thermal flow inside the mooring chain and consequently change the distribution of the temperature in the adjacent area. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, both numerical and experimental researches are conducted in this paper. The research results have shown that thermography is indeed valid in detecting the integrity of mooring chains.
Author(s): Yang W, Wei K, Peng Z
Editor(s): Haugen, S; Barros, A; Gulijk, C. v; Kongsvik, T; Vinnem, J
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World - Proceedings of the 28th International European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018
Year of Conference: 2018
Pages: 2213-2218
Print publication date: 03/06/2018
Online publication date: 15/06/2018
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 09/01/2019
Publisher: CRC Press
URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351174657
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ISBN: 9781351174657
