《Dynamics of LargeTruncated Mooring Systems Coupled with A Catenary Moored SemiSubmersible》.pdfVIP

China Ocean Eng., Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 149 – 162 © 2014 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society DOI 10.1007/s13344-014-0012-9, ISSN 0890-5487 Dynamics of Large-Truncated Mooring Systems Coupled with A Catenary * Moored Semi-Submersible XU Sheng (徐 胜)1 and JI Chun-yan (嵇春艳) Institute of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China (Received 30 September 2012; received revised form 16 January 2013; accepted 15 March 2013) ABSTRACT With the floating structures pushing their activities to the ultra-deep water, model tests have presented a challenge due to the limitation of the existing wave basins. Therefore, the concept of truncated mooring system is implemented to replace the full depth mooring system in the model tests, which aims to have the same dynamic responses as the full depth system. The truncated mooring system plays such a significant role that extra attention should be paid to the mooring systems with large truncation factor. Three different types of large truncation factor mooring system are being employed in the simulations, including the homogenously truncated mooring system, non-homogenously truncated mooring system and simplified truncated mooring system. A catenary moored semi-submersible operating at 1000 m water depth is presented. In addition, truncated mooring systems are proposed at the truncated water depth of 200 m. In order to explore the applicability of these truncated mooring systems, numerical simulations of the platform’s surge free decay interacting with three different styles of truncated moori