Abstract: To study the effects of helical strake on dynamic response of Spar platform for floating wind turbines, numerical models were set up for two NREL 5 MW floating wind turbines with and without helical strakes on the Spar platform, so as to analyze the influence of following factors on the dynamic response of the Spar platform under the action of wind, wave and current load, such as the number, height and pitch ratio of the strake, based on the wave radiation-diffraction theory and finite element method by orthogonal design. Results show that helical strakes could obviously inhibit the dynamic response of Spar platform, but significantly increase the F-K force and diffraction force on the platform; optimum parameter combination for the piece number, height and pitch ratio of shakes is found to be 2, 15%D and 5; both the height and pitch ratio of helical strakes as well as their interaction have significant effects on the pitch response of the platform.