Capturing 3D Continuum Effects in a 1D Soil-Structure Interaction Model for Seismic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines

Offshore wind energy is considered a necessary energy resource, that may stimulate the transition from fossil fuels. Following the successful development in Western Europe, offshore wind is quickly gaining momentum in the Asia-Pacific region. At variance with North-Sea based offshore wind turbines (OWTs), structures installed in the Asia-Pacific...

Development of a Reliable and Efficient 3D Calculation Model of a High-Rise Building Under Seismic Loading

This thesis research focusses on the development of a reliable and efficient 3D calculation model of an existing high-rise, reinforced concrete building in the Groningen area, in order to analyse the dynamic behaviour of the existing and subsequently retrofitted main bearing structure of this high-rise building. The assessment of the existing...

3D Finite element analysis of a scaled trapezoidal 3-story reinforced concrete structure on a shaking table

This master thesis is about finite element analyses of a 3D model of a 1/4th scaled trapezoidal 3-story reinforced concrete mock-up on a shaking table which is part of Smart 2013 international benchmark. The idea of this benchmark is to asses and predict the dynamic behavior of the reinforced concrete mock-up with respect to seismic loading...