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... isope mining machine safety mechanical property vibration hose Dynamic Analysis of Seabed-Mining Machine-Flexible Hose Coupling in Deep Sea Mining Zhi Wang1,2, Qiuhua Rao2*, Shaojun Liu3 1Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 2School of Civil...

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... Fig. 1 Hughes Glomar Explorer Deep-ocean Mining Technology: Learning Curve I Jin S. Chung ISOPE* Cupertino, California, USA ABSTRACT The recent state of technological development in the countries that have joined deep-ocean mining since the 90s is reviewed in terms of readiness...

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