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Springing responses will induce continuous vibrating stresses, with high frequencies and certain amplitudes, and will cause severe fatigue damage in ship structures.In this paper, the numerical simulations and model tests on the springing responses of a 350,000 DWT Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) were conducted.Springing analysis in the frequency domain adopted the modal analysis, 3-D Finite Element Method (FEM) and 2-D Timoshenko beam transfer matrix method, combined with 2-D strip method based on Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS).Meanwhile, the segmented model tests are conducted in two load conditions and two hull girder stiffnesses.The experiment results are compared with numerical results.In conclusion, the methods show that the springing would be excited more easily when the VLCC is in ballast condition or the full loading conditions with reduced stiffness.Compared with transfer matrix method, the error of 3-D FEM natural mode wont increase as natural frequency does and the accuracy of calculated generalized hydrodynamics based on the natural shapes will improve.The method based on MFS is compared with Boundary Element Method (BEM) to demonstrate its accuracy.Considering the calculation accuracy and speed, the above hybrid hydroelasticity method can apply to engineering purpose.