Offshore wind is a source of clean, renewable energy of great potential value to the power industry in the context of a low carbon society. Rapid development of offshore wind energy depends on a good understanding of technical issues related to offshore wind turbines, which is spurring ongoing research and development programmes. Foundations of offshore wind turbines present one of the main challenges in offshore wind turbine design. This paper reviews the present state of knowledge concerning geotechnical and structural issues affecting foundation types under consideration for the support structures of offshore wind turbines, and provides recommendations for future research and development.

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Foundations of offshore wind turbines: A review

Numerical implementation of the installation/mooring line and application to analyzing comprehensive anchor behaviors

Keying behavior of gravity installed plate anchor in clay

New analytical formulas to estimate the pullout capacity factor for rectangular plate anchors in NC clay

Bearing capacity of rectangular footings in uniform clay with deep embedment

The OMNI-Max anchor is a multi-directional, self-inserting, gravity-installed anchor and used as foundation for mooring deep water offshore facilities, including risers and floating structures. The OMNI-Max anchor offers a cost effective anchoring solution with improved reliability in the mooring system. Pullout capacity and keying behavior are two important issues in the design of the OMNI-Max anchor. In this paper, the pullout capacity and the keying process of a vertically installed OMNI-Max anchor embedded in normally consolidated clay were simulated using three dimensional large deformation finite element analysis. In these numerical analyses, 10-node tetrahedral elements were used to predict the collapse loads of undrained geotechnical problems involving material incompressibility. Nodal joint elements were used to simulate the interaction between the anchor and soil. The effect of the loading angle on the keying behavior of the OMNI-Max anchor was considered. The analyses clearly show the two important processes (1) “keying”: the anchor rotates rapidly until reaching the best bearing capacity position; (2) “diving”: the anchor mainly translates with tiny rotation. It agrees well with the keying and diving phenomenon in published model test results.Copyright © 2014 by ASME

Lihui Lu

Papers

Keying behavior of gravity installed plate anchor in clay

Large Deformation Finite Element Analysis of Gravity Installed Anchors in Clay

Keying behavior of suction embedded plate anchors with flap in clay