Mooring Design
1. Define customer requirements
Mooring Service Types
Four Mooring Service Types are defined to help identify minimum design requirements associated with DoD ships and piers, and determine operational limitations.
Facility Design Criteria for Mooring Service Types
Mooring facilities are designed conforming to the site specific environmental criteria given in table below which gives design criteria in terms of environmental design return intervals, R, and in terms of probability of exceedence, P, for 1 year of service life, N=1.