ISEAWIND – Innovative Structural Engineering Approaches for design of off-shore WIND power plant foundations
Research Project, 2015
– 2018
The expected development of offshore wind energy production in Sweden calls for new technical knowledge in the construction industry. Building support structures for offshore wind turbines involves several construction and design challenges. One of these challenges is that these structures are subjected to a combination of various stochastic loads, e.g. from wind, waves, current and ice.
The aim of this project is to study the dynamic effects of this complex loading situation and to develop the methods used for their design taking into account the structural behaviour of the whole wind turbine structure. The project is composed of four studies:
Study of the engineering aspects of offshore wind turbine support structures in Sweden
Study of load transfer from the tower to the ground and stress distribution in the support structure
Study of specific details that are prone to fatigue (identified in 2)
Study of the potential of processing large quantities of measured data for assessing the structural health of support structures
Participants
Rasmus Rempling (contact)
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering
Alexandre Mathern
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering
Mario Plos
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering
Collaborations
Swedish Wind Power Technology Center (SWPTC)
Göteborg, Sweden
Funding
Swedish Energy Agency
Funding Chalmers participation during 2015–2018
NCC AB
Project ID: SWPTCTG4-21
Funding Chalmers participation during 2015–2018
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces