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The dynamic cable is a special case of the composite catenary mooring line. As shown below, in Aqwa a composite mooring line can consist of several (upto 10) sections, each section can have its own cable properties, and the intermediate buoy or clumped weight can be defined between sections. The sections' properties are input starting from the section near the anchor to the section near the fairlead point on the structure. The tension at the upper end of each section along a dynamic cable could be output.Â
In the Aqwa dynamic cable analysis, up to 250 elements along the whole cable will be automatically created, the sizes of the elements between different cable sections may not be exactly the same but kept to be similar if possible; no element is across the cable sections.
If you really want to have the tension result at a particular location along a dynamic cable, you can define this point as a sectional end of the cable, then the results at this sectional end will be output.