Abstract: High cable is an important part of the horizontal replenishment equipment at Sea. Its performance directly affects the safety of replenishment at sea. Because there is not a suitable high cable dynamic model in the domestic, for the first time to take the high cable as a multi-body system and established the flexible-body dynamics model. Then the optimization design model of high cable which is on the basis of the model was established. Meanwhile it set up the parametric design platform of high cable by using ADAMS to parameterize the optimization design model. The optimization design results of a horizontal dry goods replenishment system at sea show that the flexible-body dynamics model and optimization design platform of high cable can meet the needs.

Key words: waterway transportation, alongside replenishment at sea, highline cable, multibody system dynamics, rigid-flexible-body system, ADAMS, optimization design, simulation, parametric design platform