Public Engagement Lecture: Geotechnical modelling for the advancement of offshore renewable energy application

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• Projects

• Supergen Wind Challenge 2015: Screw Piles for Wind Energy Foundation Systems (Joint with Universities of Durham and Southampton)

  Project: Research

• Development of Screw Anchors for Floating Marine Renewable Energy Systems Arrays Incorporating Anchor Sharing (SAFS) (Joint with University of Liege)

  Project: Research

• Accelerated Development Of Screw Anchors For Floating Wind (Joint with Industrial Partner Geowynd)

  Project: Research

• Offshore Cable Burial: How deep is deep enough? (Joint with Durham University and British Geological Survey)

  Project: Research

• Press/Media

• Pioneering UMACK mooring and anchoring project partners with University of Dundee

  Press/Media: Research

• Dundee University engineers hope to silence offshore construction

  Press/Media: Research

• Energy crisis lifeline: UK set to slash costs with 'revolutionary' floating wind turbines

  Press/Media: Research

• Screw anchors could enable floating deep-sea wind farms

  Press/Media: Research

• Scottish university looks to revolutionise wind energy with floating turbines

  Press/Media: Research

• Heerema developing Silent Foundation Concepts Technology in coordination with the University of Dundee

  Press/Media: Research

• New floating wind farm research could increase installation depth

  Press/Media: Research

• How we stop floating wind turbines the size of skyscrapers from drifting away

  Press/Media: Research

• UMACK bolsters anchoring expertise with University of Dundee partnership

  Press/Media: Research

• Heerema Developing Silent Foundations

  Press/Media: Research

• Activity

• Invited speakers at Geowynd's Bi-weekly internal seminar series- Screw pile groups for floating wind anchoring

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Public engagement talk, Cafe Scientifique: Developing Silent Foundations & Anchors for Offshore Renewable Applications

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Public Engagement: P3/4 Class STEM interactive demonstration developing efficient wind turbines and silent foundations for offshore wind, Tannadice Primary School, Angus

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Public Engagement: Tayport Episcopalian Church Talk, Sea Sunday: Local Offshore Renewable Energy Investigation and Development

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Research Outputs

• DEM element modelling of silent piling group installation for offshore wind turbine foundations

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Cone Penetration Tests (CPTs) in layered soils: a Material Point approach

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• 3D numerical analysis of screw pile subjected to axial compressive and lateral load

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Assessing single helix screw pile geometry on offshore installation and axial capacity

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Design optimisation of deep pile foundations installed by static forces

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• The influence of the installation advancement ratio on the cyclic performance of a single-helix pile for floating offshore wind applications

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Optimised screw pile design for offshore jacket foundations in medium-dense sand

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Characterization of anchor penetration behaviour for Cable burial risk assessment

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Optimisation of screw anchor lateral capacity in sand for offshore renewable energy applications

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Developing screw piles for offshore renewable energy application

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Physical modelling to demonstrate the feasibility of screw piles for offshore jacket supported wind energy structures

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Centrifuge modelling of two-way axial cyclic response of screw piles for offshore wind

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Effects of screw pile installation on installation requirements and in-service performance using the Discrete Element Method

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• DEM simulation of cyclic tests on an offshore screw pile for floating wind

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Anchor geotechnics for floating offshore wind: Current technologies and future innovations

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Using discrete-element method hindcasting of screw pile performance for practical design

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Control of screw pile installation to optimise performance for offshore energy applications

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• DEM study of particle scale effect on plain and rotary jacked pile behaviour in granular materials

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Datasets

• University of Dundee Test Data for the EPSRC Supergen Wind Hub Grand Challenges Project: Screw Piles for Wind Energy Foundations (Grant no. EP/N006054/1)

  Dataset

• Prizes

• Winners of the International Marine Contractors Association Award for Sustainability best-practice

  Prize: Other distinction

• Best Research Paper Award ICPE2021

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)