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Kementzetzidis, Evangelos (author), Pisano, F. (author), Elkadi, A.S.K. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) is a new technology for the vibratory installation of tubular (mono)piles. Its founding principle is that both efficient installation and low noise emission can be achieved by applying to the pile a combination of axial and torsional vibrations. Preliminary development and demonstration of the proposed technology...journal article 2023
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Tsetas, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Sánchez Gómez, S. (author), Pisano, F. (author), Kementzetzidis, Evangelos (author), Molenkamp, T. (author), Elkadi, A.S.K. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) is a new technology for the vibratory installation of tubular (mono)piles. Its founding principle is that both efficient installation and low noise emission can be achieved by applying to the pile a combination of axial and torsional vibrations. Preliminary development and demonstration of the proposed technology...journal article 2023
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Sánchez Gómez, S. (author), Tsetas, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)For offshore wind turbines (OWTs), the monopile comprises the most common type of foundation and vibratory driving is one of the main techniques for monopile installation (and decommissioning). In practice, prior to pile installation, a pile driving analysis is performed to select the appropriate installation device and the relevant settings....conference paper 2023
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Tsetas, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Molenkamp, T. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)In the original publication, Eqs. (11) and (17) are published incorrectly, and this has been corrected as follows: (Formula presented.) The original article has been revised.journal article 2022
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Kementzetzidis, Evangelos (author), Pisano, F. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)The analysis of cyclically loaded piles is acquiring ever greater relevance in the field of geotechnical engineering, most recently in relation to the design of offshore monopiles. In this area, predicting the gradual accumulation of pile deflection under prolonged cycling is key to performing relevant serviceability assessments, for which...journal article 2022
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Saeidtehrani, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)The process of finding values of extreme waves and their impacts on wave energy converter (WEC) responses, depends on both wave resources and WEC dynamic characteristics. A wide range of waves can influence the reliability of operation and survivability of a WEC. In this paper, a methodology is described to find specific values of wave heights...conference paper 2022
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Dostal, Leo (author), Hollm, Marten (author), Metrikine, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author)This paper aims at investigating the existence of localized stationary waves in the shallow subsurface whose constitutive behavior is governed by the hyperbolic model, implying non-polynomial nonlinearity and strain-dependent shear modulus. To this end, we derive a novel equation of motion for a nonlinear gradient elasticity model, where the...journal article 2022
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Faragau, Andrei B. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)Transition zones in railway tracks are areas with considerable variation of track properties (i.e., foundation stiffness) encountered near structures such as bridges. Due to strong amplification of the railway track’s response, transition zones are prone to rapid degradation. To study this degradation, researchers and engineers have developed...abstract 2022
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Zhang, J. (author), Faragau, Andrei B. (author), van der Esch, I.A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author)Under harmonic excitation, soil exhibits softening behaviour that can be captured through the so-called hyperbolic soil model. The response of systems with such a material model can elegantly be obtained using the classical Harmonic Balance Method (HBM). Soil also exhibits nonlinear hysteretic damping under harmonic excitation, feature which is...abstract 2022
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Tsetas, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)The Alternating Frequency-Time (AFT) Harmonic Balance method has been widely applied in the analysis of non-linear mechanical systems under periodic excitation. Customarily, a periodic displacement is considered as ansatz in a harmonic balance analysis. In the present work, a deviation from the latter ansatz is realized and the periodicity is...conference paper 2022
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Tsetas, A. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Molenkamp, T. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)This paper presents a computationally efficient mode-matching method to predict the relative axial motion of two elastic rods in frictional contact. The motion is of the stick-slip type and is non-uniform along the rods. The proposed method utilizes the piecewise linearity of the problem in time and space. The original set of nonlinear...journal article 2022
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Meijers, P.C. (author), Jolink, C. T. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)To study the irreversible changes in the magnetic stray field surrounding a steel structure caused by impact-induced elastic and plastic deformations, a steel cylinder was repeatedly subjected to axial impacts of various magnitudes. Due to impacts that induce elastic deformation, the measured magnetic stray field of the structure converges to...journal article 2022
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Faragau, Andrei B. (author), de Oliveira Barbosa, J.M. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author)The study of periodic systems under the action of moving loads is of high practical importance in railway, road, and bridge engineering, among others. Even though plenty of studies focus on periodic systems, few of them are dedicated to the influence of a local inhomogeneous region, a so-called transition zone, on the dynamic response. In...journal article 2022
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Faragau, Andrei B. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author)Hyperloop is an emerging high-speed transportation system in which air resistance is minimised by having the vehicle travel inside a de-pressurised tube supported by columns. This design leads to a strong periodic variation of the stiffness (among other parameters) experienced by the vehicle. Also, along its route, the Hyperloop will encounter...conference paper 2022
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Sánchez Gómez, S. (author), Tsetas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)In this paper, the energy flux in a pile modeled as an elastic shell, is studied theoretically and experimentally. Based on this analysis, a new procedure is proposed to quantify the pile installation efficiency. This procedure is of importance for vibratory installation of the foundations of offshore wind turbines and it is believed to be...journal article 2022
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Saeidtehrani, S. (author), Cabboi, A. (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)Faults in complex systems such as Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are inevitable. WECs are expected to work in harsh environments to produce more power which increases the possibility of major failures. Increasing the reliability of WECs calls for the development of early Fault Detection (FD) algorithms which needs understanding of the enormous...conference paper 2022
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Raghavan, V. (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), Mantadakis, Nikolaos (author), Loukogeorgaki, Eva (author)Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are expected to significantly contribute to the energy transition; however, this depends on their interactions with the resource. Calculating the power generated by WECs depends heavily on the accurate modelling of wave-structure interactions. The Boundary Element Method (BEM) based on the potential flow theory has...conference paper 2022
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Meijers, P.C. (author), Tsouvalas, A. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)This paper reports on a measurement campaign in which the magnetomechanical response of a steel monopile is recorded during installation with a hydraulic impact hammer. By comparing impact-induced changes in the magnetic stray field of the structure to the measured strain, this effect is analysed for the first time under dynamic loading...journal article 2021
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Faragau, Andrei B. (author), Keijdener, C. (author), de Oliveira Barbosa, J.M. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author)Transition zones in railway tracks are locations with a significant variation of track properties (i.e. foundation stiffness) encountered near structures such as bridges and tunnels. Due to strong amplification of the track’s response, transition zones are prone to rapid degradation. To investigate the degradation mechanisms in transition...journal article 2021