Ship-Monopile Interaction in combination with Lashings and Friction contacts

The increasing demand for renewable energy sources, to achieve ‘green goals’ such as the Paris agreement, and their related projects, are becoming increasingly challenging to accomplish. Nowadays, offshore wind farm projects move into deeper waters and require larger individual Offshore Wind Turbines<br/>(OWT’s), which results in larger...

Stern vs Side installation of Monopiles from floating vessels: Objective comparison methods to make a distinction between side and stern installation of future Monopiles

As the world economy and population grow, energy consumption grows too at a never before seen pace. Reducing costs and increased environmental awareness resulted in renewable energy sources being the fastest-growing sources in the last decade. Due to its high potential, many offshore wind turbines will be installed in the coming years. These...

Monopile Forever: Overcoming the Technical Boundaries of Monopile Foundations in Deep Waters

Since the introduction of the first offshore wind farm in 1991, the demand for offshore renewable wind energy has experienced exponential growth all around the world. To supply this demand, the power rating and corresponding dimensions of offshore wind turbines have grown significantly. Due to the ever-shrinking availability of easily accessible...

Dynamic Analysis of a Monopile Offshore Wind Support Structure Subjected to Earthquakes: A Comparative Study Between the Responses of an Elastic and an Inelastic Soil-Structure Interaction Model Through Incremental Dynamic Analysis

This thesis project has set out to investigate the response in fore-aft direction of a monopile wind foundation supporting an NREL 5MW turbine, offshore the coast of Taiwan, which is affected by weak to strong earthquake ground motion in combination with normal sea state conditions. The soil at the location of the monopile is layered, with sand...