Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines

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Construction Services and Home Improvement
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Business Operations,
Foundation,
It Operations,
Offshore,
Outsourcing,
Outsourcing & Subcontracting,
Telecom & Utilities,
Turbine,
University Of Oxford
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University of Oxford

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Overview: This paper explores some civil-engineering problems encountered for offshore wind turbines. A critical component is the connection of the structure to the ground, and in particular how the load applied to the structure is transferred safely to the surrounding soil. It review previous work on the design of offshore foundations, and then present some simple design calculations for sizing foundations and structures appropriate to the wind-turbine problem. It examines the deficiencies in the current design approaches, and the research currently under way to overcome these deficiencies.

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Format: PDF | Size: 1,566KB | Date: Nov 2003 | Pages: 22

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