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Soil–Structure Interactions for Offshore Wind Turbines
Author(s) -
Subhamoy Bhattacharya,
Georgios Nikitas,
László Arany,
Nikolaos Nikitas
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
engineering and technology reference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2056-4007
DOI - 10.1049/etr.2016.0019
Subject(s) - offshore wind power , turbine , marine engineering , soil structure interaction , foundation (evidence) , submarine pipeline , vibration , wind power , field (mathematics) , engineering , structural engineering , wind engineering , environmental science , geotechnical engineering , geology , aerospace engineering , geography , finite element method , acoustics , physics , electrical engineering , archaeology , mathematics , pure mathematics
Soil–structure interaction (SSI) for offshore wind turbine supporting structures is essentially the interaction of the foundation/foundations with the supporting soil due to the complex set of loading. This study reviews the different aspects of SSI for different types of foundations used or proposed to support offshore wind turbines. Due to cyclic and dynamic nature of the loading that acts on the wind turbine structure, the dominant SSI will depend to a large extent on the global modes of vibration of the overall structure. This study summarises the modes of vibration of offshore wind turbines structures supported on different types of foundations based on observations from scaled model tests and numerical analysis. As these are new structures with limited monitoring data, field records are scarce. Where possible, field records available in the public domain are also used to compare with experimental findings.

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