Engineering:Depressor weight

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Short description: Shock reduction system in nautical tow line
Depressor weight implementation. The blue line indicates the unmodified tow line, while the red line indicates the shape created by the depressor weight.

A depressor weight is a device used on tow lines in nautical applications. A depressor weight can be attached to a floating or otherwise stiff line to effectively produce a catenary geometry better able to mitigate shocks associated with towing and wave impacts.[1][2]

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References

  1. ↑ United States Patent office google.com/patents
  2. ↑ L. L. Whitcomb (2000). "Underwater robotics: out of the research laboratory and into the field". Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings. pp. 709–716. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844135. https://www.academia.edu/105629566. 



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