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Foundations
Design of Foundation
DECK
WAVE LOAD
JACKET
20.000 mt
41.5 MN
7.200 mt
FOUNDATION
2.880 mt
128.5 m
Ringhorne platform
Norway
41.5
2
STEEL TUBULAR
DIA. 2500 mm
CONCRETE PILE
450 mm
Design of Foundation
Driven
Controlled
drilling
Uncontrolled
drilling
Insert pile
Grouted pile
Belled pile
Design of Foundation
Suction piles
water
- 2000m
-30 m.
Main pile
Shallow water
CRANE
STEAM
HOSES
CAGE
STEAM PRESSURE
RAM
CUSHION
ANVIL
PILE
STEAMHAMMER MRBS-12500
-30 m.
Design
HYDRAULIC
HOSES
CRANE
HYDRAULIC
PRESSURE
RAM
ANVIL
AIR
WATER
PILE
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Design
-135 m.
Design
PILE
GROUT
ANNULUS
SLEEVE
PACKER
MUDLINE
MUD WIPER
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SWAGING
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Design of Foundation
Egmond aan Zee Wind Farm,
The Netherlands
NACELLE
WAVE LOAD
TP
100 mt
41.5 MN
170 mt
FOUNDATION
250 mt
20 m
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Installation of Foundation
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Differences Oil & Gas Platforms - Wind Turbines
Oil & Gas Platforms
- relatively stiff
- structural dynamics not
- relatively flexible
- complex, uncorrelated
loading
- prototype
critical
force-response
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Design
Some differences oil/gas platform
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Size of loads
Ratio vertical horizontal loads
Required distance between turbines
Water depth
Breaking waves / wave slamming
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Foundations
Design
Some differences oil/gas platform
6.
Scour
7.
Accessibility
- maintenance / inspection
8.
GBS
9.
Piles
Foundations
Fixed
Floating
Piled
driven piles
drilled piles
suction piles
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Gravity foundations
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Piled foundations
Flexibility / Adaptability :
- soil conditions
- water depth
- scour
- diameter and wall thickness
- tension & compression
- penetration and number
- track record / experience
- different installation methods
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Design
Typical North Sea wind farm design conditions:
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Design of Foundation
Design criteria & considerations
loads:
magnitude of the permanent load of the platform
wind / wave / current
ratio vertical / horizontal loads
quasi static / cyclic
water depth
sea floor
soil type
current -> scouring
fabrication, transportation & installation
available construction sites / equipment
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Choice of foundation type (1)
Loads
Water depth
Soil conditions
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Choice of foundation type (2)
Storage requirements
Transportation / Installation
equipment requirements
Available construction sites / equipment
Economics
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Laterally loaded piles
infinitely stiff
vs.
elasticity
- p-y curves
- cyclic effects
- scour (1 2D)
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Lateral pile behaviour
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Deformation of a pile
with and without head restraint
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Foundations
Scour
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Scour
Pile
0 Vertical effective soil pressure
Seabed
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axially loaded piles
infinitely stiff
vs.
elasticity
- t-z curves
- cyclic degrading less
- tension < compression
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Foundations
Foundations
pile
elastic soil
clay
sand
Foundations
conventional pile
vs.
monopile
overturning moment
bending of pile
(vertical pile)
required penetration
vertical load
horizontal load
vertical load
horizontal load
(stiffness)
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Foundation model
-
soil soil
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Foundation Model: Effective Fixity Depth
Configuration
Effective fixity
length
Stiff clay
3.5 D 4.5 D
7D8D
General calculations
6D
Experience with
offshore turbines
3.3 D 3.7 D
Seabed
Effective
fixity
length
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Foundation Model: Uncoupled springs In exercise: Use
ANSYS Macros
Forced displacement/rotation
u
and method B for
M
F
a monopile
Tower
Method A Applied force/moment
M
Rotation
Ignore M
Ignore F
Seabed
Method B
Translations
Ignore
Ignore u
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Foundation Model: Stiffness Matrix
Run two load cases with FEM
model with py-curves
(See next slide)
H kx x
M = k
x
k x u
Stiffness matrix
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Enhanced Foundation Model
External shaft friction
(t-z curves)
Use:
Standards (API/DNV)
Existing software
Lateral resistance
(p-y curves)
Foundations
Pile Fabrication / transportation / lifting / positioning / driving
Fabrication
Lifting / Transportation
- D/t
pile (tip) integrity
- lifting tools
- welded appurtenances (SCFs)
Positioning
- monopiles
- jackets / towers / tripods
Driving
verticality
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Pile Fabrication / transportation / lifting / positioning / driving
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Foundations
Pile Fabrication / transportation / lifting / positioning / driving
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Foundations
Pile Fabrication / transportation / lifting / positioning / driving
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Foundations
Pile Fabrication / transportation / lifting / positioning / driving
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