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Guedes Soares, C., Pascoal, R., Huang, S. and Barltrop, N. (2006), “Assessment of the Effect of Mooring Systems on the Horizontal Motions with an Equivalent Force to Model”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 33, pp. 1644-1668

The present work was carried out to assess an equivalent force model for the effect of mooring lines. The verification is performed for some circumstances with interest for application in both analysis and in field. It is shown that the methodology provides reasonable estimates of the coefficients. The final equation is very simple to introduce into a vessel motion program.

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