Physical modelling of screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations
Physical modelling of screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations
Using existing design methodologies, a series of screw piles were designed to meet the loads required for an upper-bound design scenario of a steel jacket supported offshore wind turbine in deep water. The installation torque and force were measured from centrifuge tests of 1/80 th scale models of the screw piles in very dense sand. Results indicate that the installation requirements are significant and may be beyond the capabilities of existing conventional installation equipment. Optimisation of the screw pile design was successful in reducing the installation force and torque by 34 and 17% respectively over the non-optimised design variant. Accurate prediction of the installation torque is critical and can be achieved using correlations with cone penetration test data.
Screw piles, Torque, Centrifuge model
31-38
Brown, Michael
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Davidson, Craig
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Brennan, Andrew
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Knappett, Jonathan
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Cerfontaine, Benjamin
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Sharif, Yaseen
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27 May 2019
Brown, Michael
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Davidson, Craig
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Brennan, Andrew
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Knappett, Jonathan
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Cerfontaine, Benjamin
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Sharif, Yaseen
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Brown, Michael, Davidson, Craig, Brennan, Andrew, Knappett, Jonathan, Cerfontaine, Benjamin and Sharif, Yaseen
(2019)
Physical modelling of screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations.
In 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications.
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Abstract
Using existing design methodologies, a series of screw piles were designed to meet the loads required for an upper-bound design scenario of a steel jacket supported offshore wind turbine in deep water. The installation torque and force were measured from centrifuge tests of 1/80 th scale models of the screw piles in very dense sand. Results indicate that the installation requirements are significant and may be beyond the capabilities of existing conventional installation equipment. Optimisation of the screw pile design was successful in reducing the installation force and torque by 34 and 17% respectively over the non-optimised design variant. Accurate prediction of the installation torque is critical and can be achieved using correlations with cone penetration test data.
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Published date: 27 May 2019
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of EPSRC (Grant no. EP/N006054/1: Supergen Wind Hub Grand Challenges Project: Screw piles for wind energy foundations) and the Iraqi Ministry of higher Education of Scientific Research (MOHESR). This project has also received support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 753156. Elements of this work were undertaken using facilities developed as part of the ERDF-funded Scottish Marine & Renewables Test Centre (SMART) at the University of Dundee
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Screw piles, Torque, Centrifuge model
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Michael Brown
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Craig Davidson
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Andrew Brennan
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Jonathan Knappett
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Yaseen Sharif
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