New detected uncertainties in the design of foundations for offshore Wind Turbines

Jorge Luengo, Vicente Negro, Javier García-Barba, José-Santos López-Gutiérrez and M. Dolores Esteban

Renewable Energy, 2019, vol. 131, issue C, 667-677

Abstract: In 2014, the Renewable Energy Journal published innovative research where the authors showed the results obtained in work where the design of support structures and foundations in marine based wind farms were questioned. The uncertainties in the design were then justified by the “limited” field experience and in the review of the standards and recommendations existing at that time. Fundamentally, an analysis was made of the ratio between useful life and the probability of failure, the wave theories to be used, the hydrodynamics of Morison, Froude-Krylov and diffraction domains, together with the scouring phenomena processes and consequent protection of structural items.

Keywords: Offshore wind farms; Monopiles; Gravity based structures; Technical standards; Recommendations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.07.103

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