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International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE- 24th-25th January 2014) RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Finite Element Analysis of Mooring Cable Vineesh.M.V*, Nithin V Sabu **, Manju.P.M*** *PG Student, Email: vineesh.vineesh.mv@ **Assistant Professor, Email: nithinengg@. ***Associate Professor, Email: mpm_799@. Department of Civil Engineering, Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, Kerala, India ABSTRACT The Mooring refers to the means for providing the connection between the structure and the seafloor. It is used for securing the structure against the environmental forces. Moorings typically have three basic components anchor, chain or cable and floating devices. The mooring system relies on the strength of the anchors, digging depth and the soil properties. The mooring lines run from the structures to the anchors on the seafloor these are made up of synthetic fiber rope, wire and chain or a combination of these. The catenary mooring system is the most commonly used system and at the seabed, the mooring cable lies horizontally. The rope comes in at 30- 45 degree angle with the seabed. The different forces are acting on the mooring cable under tidal and climatic conditions such as current force, wave force and wind force. In this analysis studied the behaviour of mooring cable attached to buoy and spar platform under environmental forces using FEA package ANSYS 10.0. The application of CFRP material as a mooring cable instead of existing steel and fibre rope mooring cables is studied. Keyword