Vertically loaded anchor, a new type of mooring foundations for deep-water offshore engineering

Mooring foundations are important parts of a mooring system in deep-water offshore engineering. With the rapid exploitation of ocean resources especially of oil and gas, the key techniques of deep-water mooring system are becoming more and more important over the world. The vertically loaded anchor (VLA) is a new type of mooring foundations for deep-water exploitation of ocean resources. The application, performance, working mechanism, installation and reuse, and computational method are briefly described in this paper. It is expected that the paper is helpful to researchers to understand further the updated key techniques of deep-water mooring system of the world, and hence it can stimulate the research and development of our domestic deep-water mooring system.