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Abstract
The offshore deployment of floating offshore structures such as wind turbines or wave energy converters is expected to strongly increase during the next decade, to face the appetite for green energy sources. The growing size of these structures’ dimensions, inducing very large mooring forces, makes the anchoring solution adopted a critical issue for the commercial success of floating marine energy farms. The upscaling of the screw anchor technology from onshore to the offshore environment has been recently proposed as an efficient way of providing a large tension capacity while their installation generates far less noise and vibrations than impact pile driving. Most of recent studies on screw anchors have focused on separated geotechnical problems such as their uplift capacity or installation requirements. This paper incorporates within a single procedure geotechnical and structural constraints to calculate the optimal anchor geometry able to maximise the uplift capacity available. Performance envelopes for screw anchors have been derived in a parametric study, covering a broad range of soil conditions as well as in a case study, representative of offshore conditions. Results show that single screw anchors are more efficient (e.g. shorter and lighter) than driven piles to sustain tension loading. The results presented in this study support the applicability of screw anchors to be used as part of the mooring system for wave energy converters. However, tension requirements for tension-leg platform wind turbines would probably require the use of group of anchors.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 108010 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Ocean Engineering |
Volume | 217 |
Early online date | 10 Oct 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Screw piles
- Screw anchor
- Sand
- Torque
- Renewable energy
- Offshore geotechnics
- Screw anchors
- Anchor design
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- 2 Finished
Research output
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Centrifuge Testing of Large Screw Pile Geometries for Offshore Applications
Cerfontaine, B., Davidson, C., Brown, M., Knappett, J. & Sharif, Y., 5 Mar 2021, p. 139-144.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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A Finite Element approach for determining the full load-displacement relationship of axially-loaded shallow screw anchors, incorporating installation effects
Cerfontaine, B., Knappett, J., Brown, M., Davidson, C., Al-Baghdadi, T., Sharif, Y., Brennan, A., Augarde, C., Coombs, W. M., Wang, L., Blake, A., Richards, D. J. & Ball, J. D., 30 Jun 2020, In: Canadian Geotechnical Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing screw piles for offshore renewable energy application
Brown, M. J., Davidson, C., Cerfontaine, B., Ciantia, M., Knappett, J. & Brennan, A., 2020, Advances in Offshore Geotechnics: Proceedings of ISOG2019. Haldar, S., Patra, S. & Ghanekar, R. K. (eds.). Singapore: Springer , p. 101-119 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; vol. 92).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Activities
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Using DEM to Investigate the Applicability of Screw Piles as an Alternative Solution for Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations
Michael Brown (Speaker) & Yaseen Sharif (Speaker)
25 Nov 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Keynote lecture First International Workshop on Future Application of Screw Piles (IWFASP 2019) At: IIT Bhubaneshwar, India
Michael Brown (Keynote speaker)
7 Dec 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote
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