“…However, most of these studies focus on the suspended component in the water such as the method adopted in commercial codes Riflex, Cable3D and Orcaflex (Fylling et al, 2008;Ma and Webster, 1994;Orcina, 2009) . In these studies, anchors are assumed to be a fixed point located at the surface of the seabed (Kim et al, 2013(Kim et al, , 2005Tahar and Kim, 2003) and the seabed is modelled as a rigid plane or an elastic spring (Chai et al, 2002;Ma and Webster, 1994). This process has ignored the chainsoil interactions, which may not be safe for a semi-taut or taut mooring system as stated above.…”