API RP 2SM (R2020) – Recommended Practice for Design Manufacture Installation and Maintenance of Synthetic Fiber Ropes for Offshore Mooring Second Edition
This document applies to synthetic fiber ropes used in the form of taut leg or catenary moorings for both permanent and temporary offshore installations such as:
a)monohull-based floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs);
b)monohull-based floating storage units (FSOs FSUs);
c)monohull or semi-submersible based floating production units (FPUs FPSs);
d)mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs);
e)spar platforms;
f)catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoys (spread mooring only);
g)mobile offshore units (MOUs e.g. construction pipelay floating accommodation vessels).
This document covers the following aspects of synthetic fiber ropes:
a)design and analysis considerations of mooring system;
b)design criteria for mooring components;
c)rope design;
d)rope specification and testing;
e)rope manufacture and quality assurance;
f)rope handling and installation;
g)in-service inspection and maintenance.
Application of this document to other offshore mooring applications is at the discretion of the designer and operator. This document is not intended to cover other marine applications of synthetic fiber ropes such as tanker mooring at piers and harbors towing hawsers mooring hawsers at single-point moorings (SPMs) and tension leg platform (TLP) tethers. Additionally very little test data are available for large synthetic fiber ropes permanently deployed around fairleads and thus this document is limited to fiber ropes which span freely between end terminations.
Product Details
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Published:
- 07/01/2014
- Number of Pages:
- 116
- File Size:
- 1 file 3.4 MB
- Redline File Size:
- 2 files 14 MB
- Product Code(s):
- G2SM02 G2SM02 G2SM02
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Russia Cuba Syria North Korea Ukraine Belarus Iran
