Tension-tension testing of a novel mooring rope construction

The authors at the University of Exeter would like to thank their colleagues at Nagasaki University and Ashimori Industry Co. Ltd for being given the opportunity to carry out the interesting work reported in this paper. Through the Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) consortium, the DMaC test facility was funded from the ERDF Convergence programme and South West Regional Development Agency