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Rate effects for monopile foundations
Monopile pile foundations are the most commonly used support system for offshore wind turbines in Europe. These foundations are subject to lateral loading, which is cyclic in nature, with the loading rate and load eccentricity varying with time. Under extreme conditions, such as the emergency stop of the turbine, yawing or ship impact, transient ...
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Abstract Extensive offshore renewable energy installations have raised concerns about their environmental impacts. These concerns highlight the need for high fidelity modeling of conditions within wind‐farm regions, where wave–structure interactions through reflection, diffraction, and dissipation reshape local and regional wave dynamics, thereby ...
Biao Zhao +3 more
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Comparative Analysis of Scour in Riprap-Protected Monopiles and Hybrid Foundations
As the demand for new sustainable solutions for harvesting energy increases, the offshore energy sector focuses on optimising well-established state-of-the-art solutions while striving for new innovative approaches.
João Chambel +4 more
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A comparative study of multiple-criteria decision-making methods under stochastic inputs [PDF]
This paper presents an application and extension of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to account for stochastic input variables. More in particular, a comparative study is carried out among well-known and widely-applied methods in MCDM ...
Kolios, Athanasios +3 more
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ABSTRACT Reliability, safety, and the lifetime of wind energy systems are mainly driven by the quality of each single component. Especially, large structures made of cast material or welded structures, such as the nacelle, the machine carrier, or the tower, are subjected to cyclic loading.
Christoph Bleicher +3 more
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Offshore wind power offers a promising solution to Türkiye's energy and climate challenges, with its extensive coastline and strategic location providing significant potential for development between 2035 and 2053. While no OWTs are currently installed, designated development zones in the Sea of Marmara mark the initial steps toward increasing ...
Hasan Emre Demirci +3 more
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ABSTRACT The Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) of the eastern US differs from other offshore wind (OSW) development sites due to a unique seasonal oceanographic stratification regime. Fisheries there target migratory finfish and sedentary shellfish, the productivity and distribution of which are driven by oceanography with dynamic mesoscale features that can
Thomas Grothues +9 more
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Small-displacement behavior of offshore wind power monopiles subjected to static lateral loading
The centrifuge tests and numerical simulations are carried out to explore the small-displacement behavior of 9 m-diameter offshore wind power large-scale monopiles with various embedment depths. The results show that as the embedment depth increases, the
WANG Wei 1 , ZHANG Zitao 2 , YU Guangming 1, ZHANG Xuedong 2, ZHANG Zechao 1, SONG Jianzheng 2, ZHANG Zheng 2
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Centrifuge modelling of monopiles in dense sand at The Technical University of Denmark [PDF]
The pile-soil interaction is of great importance in the design of monopiles supporting offshore wind turbines. Especially the predication of accumulation of rotations, change in stiffness and damping is difficult.
Hededal, Ole +2 more
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Monopile Implementation in Offshore Bridge
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the implementation of monopiles in offshore and overwater bridge construction. Monopiles, cylindrical steel structures driven into the seabed or riverbed, have gained prominence as a foundation solution due to their cost-effectiveness, ease of installation, and environmental benefits.
Tarranum Khan - +4 more
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