2014 Volume 70 Issue 2 Pages I_978-I_983
Tsunami disasters of floating vessels moored on the quay are complex, such as breaking of the mooring line and then drifting and collision of floating vessel. There was an example in which a mooring tether does not break in the ship moored to the floating pier in the damage of tsunami. It was confirmed in the Miyagi Shiogama port in case of the East Japan great earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011. In this paper, the objectives are to clarify the effect of reducing mooring tether force in case of that ship is moored to floating pier by using 3D-MPS method and also the advantages of floating pier for fixed mooring quay.
In addition, in this paper the authors discussed the following items: 1) Response characteristics due to the difference in the Wave elevation in Tsunami. 2) Response characteristics in various incidence angles.
