
Tension Technology International
Services
TTI are specialists in the design, application and performance fibre ropes, wire ropes, chains, electro-mechanical cables and associated hardware.
Through TTI’s dedicated test facility, TTI Testing Ltd, and as part of many industry and TTI led JIPs, TTI have
built up an extensive database of the in-service performance of synthetic fibres, fibre ropes, wire ropes, and
chain.
TTI have extensive knowledge and experience in the design, manufacture, quality assurance, testing and installation of Riser Protection Nets (RPN). Nineteen platforms have been supplied now, including the world’s largest capacity net with horizontals ropes in excess of 870 tonnes breaking load, an overall net energy absorption capacity of 20MJ and a design life of up to 40 years. The oldest nets have been in service for over 25 years to date.
TTI have experience and technical expertise in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering as applied in the industrial, military, marine, and offshore areas.
More recently, TTI has brought its extensive fibre rope and mooring design expertise to the benefit of the marine renewables industry, that is floating offshore wind and hydrokinetic (tidal, river and wave power) technologies.
Some of TTI Capabilities are summarised below:
TTI is the World's leading authority on the Design and Specification of Riser and Conductor Protection Net Systems.
TTI Marine Renewables (TTI-MR) Ltd, was established in 2015. Our team of naval architects, engineers and material specialists have decades of experience in the design, development, testing and qualification of station-keeping solutions for floating marine renewable energy systems (floating wind, wave, tidal & solar).

Marine Renewables
Key services we can offer include:
• Full mooring system global time domain analysis.
• Mooring system landscaping, concept development and optimisation.
• Mooring system detail design.
• Design - Including ropes, terminations and cables.
• Independent Testing
• Software development - The home of Optimoor, Optilife and FRM
• Rope service life prediction
• Failure Analysis and Expert Witness