hawser-laid rope
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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hawser-laid rope, the description given to rope in which three
strands are laid up (see
lay up, to) against the twist to form the rope. See also
cable-laid rope.
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Hawser holds offshore installations.(Marine)
Newspaper article from: Advances in Textiles Technology; 5/1/2005; 642 words
; ...bursting, than earlier designs of hawser with plastic layers. After a short period of use, this hawser develops a hairy surface...The equipment used to make hawsers of this type comprises a number...as a dense sheath around the hawser's core. The final hawser...
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Canadian Inventor Develops Hawser Guidance System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/19/2006; 451 words
; ...Beaconsfield, Canada, has developed a hawser guidance system for quick release mooring...Office: "The present invention provides a hawser guidance system, adaptable to a quick...aligned with the direction of an incoming hawser or mooring cable, and, optionally...
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Designing Single Point Mooring Hawsers to Today's Requirements
Magazine article from: Sea Technology; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...single point mooring (SPM) hawsers. These new guidelines reflect...to a buoy. This so-called hawser connects the small buoy to...tanker. In a heavy sea, the hawsers needs the elasticity to compensate...rope designs are used for SPM hawsers: eight-strand, plaited...
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Data on pneumonia reported by S.P. Hawser and co-researchers.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 9/23/2009; 700+ words
; ...negative K. oxytoca," wrote S.P. Hawser and colleagues (see also Pneumonia...Enterobacteriaceae inhibited in this study." Hawser and colleagues published their study in...additional information, contact S.P. Hawser, International Health Management Associates...
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Energy Recruiters.(Leif Hawser appointed as senior recruiting specialist)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Petroleum News; 11/1/2004; 578 words
; ...McAuliffe, president of Energy Recruiters, Bonita Springs, Fla., has announced that Leif Hawser has joined the firm as a senior recruiting specialist. Hawser has been involved in professional recruiting across many industries for more than 10 years...
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POLYETHYLENE FISHING HAWSERS
Newspaper article from: High Performance Plastics; 5/1/1990; 521 words
; Nylon, polyester, aramid and even steel ropes are beginning to be replaced by Allied-Signal's Spectra high performance polyethylene fibres in commercial fishing. With the introduction of larger factory trawlers and the accompanying increases in dimensions, drag and catching capacity of pelagic
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Dutch, Belgian Inventors Develop Laid Rope Splicing Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/27/2006; 497 words
; ...have developed a method for splicing a laid rope. According to the U.S. Patent &...Office: "Method to make a splice in a laid rope construction containing at least two strands includes splitting one end of the laid rope into a first part having a first number...
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Climbers get hi-tech edge with improved equipment
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...1950s. Kernmantel rope has a protective outer coat, enabling the core to be softer and more loosely woven than hawser-laid rope. More energy-absorbent, it allows climbers to take bigger falls in greater safety. Ropes are now treated to...
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Experimental investigation of an external turret-moored FPSO system by VALM arrangement
Magazine article from: Ships and Offshore Structures; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...parameters influencing the mooring and hawser line forces and motion response for different loading conditions with different hawser lengths. A 1:100 scale model of 140...70% DWT and 100% DWT) with three hawser lengths (i.e. 15%, 20% and 25...
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Soapbox
Magazine article from: Sea Technology; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...single point mooring (SPM) hawsers. These were recently revised...Purchasing and Testing of SPM Hawsers." The basic premise of the...length ropes used as SPM hawsers, because it is generally impractical to test a sample of each hawser. Until recently, these OCIMF...
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hawser-laid rope
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
hawser-laid rope, the description given to rope in which three strands are laid up (see lay up, to ) against the twist to form the rope. See also cable-laid rope .
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cable-laid rope
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...ordinary ropes which have...ordinary rope, known as hawser rope, the...strands are laid up from left...cable-laid rope the three hawsers must be laid up from right...strands in the hawser become untwisted...hawser-laid ropes of 120 ...
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shroud-laid rope
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
shroud-laid rope, the name given to rope laid up with four strands instead...usual three. The strands are laid up round a heart , or central...Size for size, shroud-laid rope is not as strong as hawser-laid rope . However, it...
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rope
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...natural fibres used in rope-making are hemp , manila...occasionally used for rope in yachts , but it was...mildew. The different ropes were often identified...yarn . The process of rope-making is the same...stranded, or shroud-laid , rope) being laid up...anticlockwise, to ...
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laid
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...the strand consisting of fibres twisted up. Hawser-laid rope consists of three strands twisted together...rope against the lay of the strands; cable-laid rope is three hawser-laid ropes twisted up together to form a cable. Cable...
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