Substructure Design of Offshore Wind Turbine
- Course focuses on rational design of wind turbine foundations to reduce offshore wind costs.
- Detailed knowledge on mono pile, piled jackets, soil pile interaction, and dynamic responses.
- Emphasises key differences between offshore wind substructure and offshore substation substructure.
- Provides design driver for Jacket offshore wind turbine substructure.
- Instructors include experts in geotechnical engineering, offshore wind industry, and loads analysis.
Overview
The Offshore Wind Turbine Training course focuses on the design and analysis of wind turbine substructures to reduce costs in offshore wind projects. It covers topics such as mono pile and piled jackets design, soil-pile interaction, and dynamic responses. The course also highlights differences between wind turbine and substation substructures. Expert lecturers provide insights into offshore foundation design and loads analysis methodologies. The training is offered in various locations in the UK and internationally.
Who should attend
Engineers, Team Leaders
Course Content
About the course:
The costs of offshore wind are currently significantly higher than onshore wind. A significant contributor to this higher cost is the cost of the sub structures for the turbines, hence a rational and optimized design of foundation for wind turbines is essential to reduce the overall cost. This course gives a detailed knowledge about the design and analysis of mono pile, and piled jackets. This course also includes the soil pile interaction and the dynamic responses. The key differences between offshore wind substructure and offshore substation substructure is also emphasised. Lastly, the course gives the design driver for Jacket offshore wind turbine substructure.
Course Outline:
Lecture 1: Overview of the wind turbine sub structure By Paul Doherty
Lecture 2: Soil structure interaction By Paul Doherty
Lecture 3: Case studies By Paul Doherty
Lecture 4: Recent research, JIPs and lessons learned – By Paul Doherty
Lecture 5: Offshore wind turbine loads analysis methodologies (fully integrated, superelement) and modelling tools By Andrew Cordle
Lecture 6: Temporary stability of piles and modelling installation By Alice Maynard
Lecture 7: The key differences between offshore wind substructure and offshore substation substructure By Ting Sie Chui
Lecture 8: The design driver for Jacket offshore wind turbine substructure By Ting Sie Chui
About the Lecturers
Paul Doherty BE, PhD, CEng. MIEI – Graduated from UCD with a BE (Hons) degree, where he specialised in geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. He has worked on a range of consultancy projects, including offshore foundation design, piled foundations, slope stability and geotechnical instrumentation/monitoring. Paul is also an active member of the Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) technical committees for “Marine Foundations”and “Driven Piling”. Paul completed a PhD on the topic of offshore pile design in 2010. He has published over 50 technical articles on piling and foundations and has been Managing Director at GDG since the company inception in 2011
Ting Sie Chui, PhD – Graduated as PhD in Civil Engineering. He is a chartered engineer and has been working in offshore wind industry for the last 5 years. Currently he is a lead engineer in a detailed design offshore substation substructure design with Atkins
Andrew Cordle – Is a team leader at DNV GL, working on offshore loads analysis in the renewables department based within the DNV GL’s Bristol Office
Alice Maynard – Is a senior geotechnical engineer with DNV GL renewables team at Bristol.
Duration: 2 Days
Cost:£650 + VAT
Offshore Wind Turbine Training Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
Offshore Wind Turbine Training Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, India, Ghana and Nigeria is also available.
