简介：A3-Dtimedomainmethodisdevelopedtoinvestigatethegapinfluenceonthewaveforcesfor3-Dmultiplefloatingstructures.Specialhydrodynamicresonanceduetosmallgapsbetweenmultiplefloatingstructuresonwaveforcesisexamined.Strongandcomplicatehydrodynamicinteractionsbetweenthefloatingbodiesareobservedandthenumericalcomputationshaveprovedtheexistenceofthesharppeakforceresponseoneachfloatingbodyatsomespecialresonantwavenumbers.Bycomparisonwiththeresultsfromthefrequencydomaintechnique,theresultsobtainedfromthetimedomainmethodrevealthesimilarresonantphenomenaandhydrodynamicinteraction.TheresonantwavenumbersarealsoprovedaroundkL=nπ(n=1,2,…,∞)withacorrespondingfrequencyshift.Thestronghydrodynamicinteractionfeatureispracticallysignificantforthedesignofmodulestructuresandthelinks(connection)inwholethefloatingbodysystem.