Assessment on the potential use of vessel motion limit criteria for subsea cable installation

Van Oord is active in the subsea cable installation industry and executes most of their cable lay projects with their cable laying vessel: The Nexus. In this thesis the focus lies on the normal lay phase of the cable installation, which comprises the phase when the vessel is pulling out the cable and putting it down on the seabed following the...

Motion based cable integrity limits for quadrant assisted pull-in operations on submarine inter-array cables

The installation of subsea cables connecting offshore wind turbines to the grid is a delicate process. This is especially the case for the operation of connecting the second end of the cable to the turbine. The applied method of using a quadrant means that in the workability analyses, multibody dynamics, line dynamics and sea state dynamics need...

Real-time numerical modeling of subsea cable dynamics – Visualized in Augmented Reality

There lies an opportunity for significant cost savings in the installation of subsea cables in offshore wind farms which is why the current work proposes a state-of-the-art method for monitoring the cable during installation. The proposed method enables offshore crew to look through the water with the use of augmented reality. To this end a real...