Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

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Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations: Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches offers an in-depth exploration of the complex challenges and potential solutions arising in the design and maintenance of offshore wind installations, covering the whole range of OWT foundation types, including gravity-based and deep foundations, suction caissons, and anchors for floating turbines, with special emphasis given to monopiles, as the most common type of foundation at present. Key aspects addressed include current design practices and standards, characterization of soils, sea depth, soil types, and loads, soil-structure interaction, long-term behavior of offshore wind turbines, decommissioning, recycling, and reuse of offshore wind turbine foundations, and future trends. Additionally, valuable case studies are used as a reference for practical guidance and for future designs, helping practitioners to learn from past experiences. By bridging the gap between theoretical concepts, research lines and real applications, this latest volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering Series will equip both practitioners and researchers with the knowledge and tools needed to address the very particular challenges of offshore wind turbine foundations.

Enables readers to learn about geotechnical challenges, standards, and design procedures for offshore wind turbine foundations
Covers characterization of soils, construction procedures, analytical and numerical analyses for design, retrofitting, and decommissioning
Analyzes soil-structure interaction, load transfer mechanisms, and dynamic response of foundations under varying environmental conditions, for different types of soils
Uses case studies to illustrate practical applications and lessons learned, offering valuable insights into best practices and emerging trends

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWind Energy Engineering
Antal sidor350
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780443416422

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Susana Lopez-Querol, PhD, MEng, CEng, MICE, joined University College London (UCL) in 2015 as an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering. She has more than 20 years of experience as an academic, in different universities in Spain and the UK. Her research interests mainly lie in the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics field. She is interested in the constitutive behaviour of soil under dynamic loading, from both experimental and numerical points of view, and has been investigating the effect of dynamic loadings on the foundation of offshore structures during the last decade. Dr. Lopez-Querol has supervised more than 10 PhD students to completion, several of them specifically in topics related to offshore wind turbine foundations. She has a significant number of academic publications on those topics, both in journals, conferences and book chapters, and led a project on the experimental investigation of the installation of monopiles in the centrifuge (at TU Delft).

1. General aspects of offshore wind turbine foundations: Review of current design practices and standards2. Site and laboratory investigation: Characterization of soils3. Type of offshore wind foundations for different sea depths, soil types and loads:a. Gravity basedb. Suction caissonsc. Deep foundations (piles)d. Floating turbines: anchored foundations4. Soil-structure interaction of offshore wind turbinesa. Installation of monopilesb. Dynamic responsec. Contact between soil and foundations during dynamic load d. Soil plugging5. Long-term behaviour of offshore wind turbinesa. Rotation of monopiles during exploitation and extreme loadsb. Scour and its impact on the OWT performancec. Development of excess pore water pressures and liquefactiond. Seismic responsee. Operation and maintenance issues6. Decommissioning, recycling, and reusing offshore wind turbine foundationsa. Current proceduresb. Future trends7. Case studies - offshore wind turbine foundations8. Offshore wind turbine foundations: Conclusions and future research trends