Reply To: Hyrodynamic Response for Laying Barge

[quoctran0606]

Thank you for your detailed response.

(2). The barge is laying the steel pipe with constant tension by tensioner and stinger supporting. My assumption to model it like mooring line and adjust mooring length to maintain the initial tension as mentioned tension. My purpose to know how the mooring system behaviour. 

(3) The steel pipe + concrete coated during laying will be have its configuration under stinger supporting. As your response, that steel pipe will be modeled with multiple tube element and stinger supporting acting like series of fender. So I afraid that the pipe will be not got the right configuration (overbend region on stinger supporting, sagbend region and touch down point of pipe)