Foundation Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Structures
- Course focuses on design & analysis of wind turbine foundations to reduce costs.
- Provides detailed knowledge on monopile & jacket structure foundations.
- Includes soil-pile interaction & dynamic responses for offshore wind systems.
- Target audience: engineers, researchers, project managers, safety inspectors.
- Trainers: Dr. Joshua Omer, Dr. Moritz Braun, Dr. Yang Yang.
Overview
The Online Offshore Wind Turbine Structures Training Course focuses on optimizing foundation design to reduce costs in offshore wind energy. Participants gain detailed knowledge of monopile and jacket structure foundations, soil-pile interaction, and dynamic responses. The course covers aero-servo hydro elastic software OPEN FAST and engineering models for offshore wind systems. Target attendees include engineers, researchers, wind turbine installation companies, and project managers. The course offers a balance of theory and practice through lectures by experts in geotechnical engineering, structural design, and offshore wind turbine modeling.
Who should attend
Engineers, researchers, contract engineers, team leaders, project engineers, managers, offshore controls engineers, safety inspectors.
Course Content
This Foundation Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Structures course provides a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of offshore wind turbine foundations, with a focus on monopile and jacket structures. It explores the key factors that influence foundation costs and demonstrates how optimised design can help reduce overall project expenditure. The course covers soil–pile interaction, dynamic response behaviour and the fundamentals of coupled offshore wind system dynamics. Attendees will also gain an overview of the aero-servo-hydro-elastic software OPENFAST and the engineering models used to represent offshore wind systems. Designed for engineers, researchers and project professionals, the course combines theoretical knowledge with practical application to support effective foundation design and delivery in offshore wind projects.
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Location
Course Syllabus
Day 1
PROGRAMME (All timings are in GMT)
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture 1: Introduction and overview of on-shore wind turbine structures & foundations: Dr.Moritz Braun
10:30 –11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Lecture 2: : Basics of structural design – Dr.Moritz Braun
12:30 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Lecture 3: Load assumptions and structural modeling including FE analysis.
Dr.Moritz Braun
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16.30 Lecture 4: Geotechnical aspect of Offshore foundations
Day 2
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture 5: Design of pile foundations-1 – Dr Joshua Omer
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Lecture 6 Design of pile Foundations- 2 – Dr Joshua Omer
12:30 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Lecture 7: Introduction to Openfast for offshore wind turbine modelling and its pre-processing – Dr Yang Yang
14:30 –15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:30 Lecture 8: Demonstration of offshore wing turbine foundation modelling and load calculation under different conditions – Dr. Yang Yang
Additional Information
Dr Joshua Omer
Dr Joshua Omer is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Environment, Kingston University, London. He holds a First-Class honors BEng in Civil Engineering, a MSc in Structures and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering specializing in Piled Foundations. He has over 30 years, having worked both in industry and academia in the UK and overseas. He has undertaken a range of consultancy projects and published over 60 research papers in journals and conferences, supervised several PhD students and served as external examiner for PhD theses in UK and overseas universities. Dr Omer is a past recipient of the biannual David Douglas Prize and lecture, awarded by the South Wales Institute of Engineers, UK, for engineering excellence in a paper competition open to all engineers working in South Wales region. He is a former Royal Society Industrial Fellow and winner of the Research & Development award of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Dr Omer is a member of the editorial board of the Geo- engineering Case studies Journal of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and represents the British Geotechnical Association in the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC107- Lateritic Soils. He is also a member of the Drilled Shafts Technical Committee of the Deep Foundations Institute, USA.
Dr. Moritz Braun
Moritz Braun, Dr., is the head of the department for ship reliability at the German Aerospace Center of Maritime Energy Systems in Geesthacht, Germany. He holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering (2012), an M.Sc. in Marine Technology (2014) and a Doctor of Engineering (2021). For his doctoral thesis, he received the Curt Bartsch Award of the German Society for Maritime Technology. His research focuses on the structural integrity assessment of large engineering structures and in particular on fatigue and fracture mechanics. He has about 70 publications in the corresponding fields. He is the delegate of the German Welding Association (DVS) at the International Institute of Welding (IIW) in ‘Commission XV: Design, Analysis, and Fabrication of Welded Structures’, the German representative in the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) technical committee ‘V.7 Structural Assessment During Operations’, and the deputy chairman of the working group ‘Damages of Ship Structures’ of DVS.
Dr Yang Yang
Dr. Yang Yang. Dr. Yang was a postdoctoral research associate in Liverpool John Moores University during Oct. 2018 to Dec. 2020. His now an associate professor based in Ningbo University since May 2021. He has published more than 60 papers and 11 papers in refereed SCI journals as the first author. Dr Yang has been granted for more than 10 projects from the Nature Science Foundation of China, Nature Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, and other industrial corporations. He is devoted to the development of a fully coupled modeling methodology, structural control measure, and structural healthy monitoring algorithm for offshore energy systems.
Dr. Yang is a very professional user and developer of FAST/OpenFAST. has developed a seismic coupled analysis and structural control architecture for fixed bottom offshore wind turbines based on FAST. In addition, he has developed a fully coupled framework (F2A) for floating offshore wind turbines based on AQWA and OpenFAST, and F2A is released to the public for free to use. In terms of the coupled modeling of an integrated floating wind-wave-current energy system, he has developed a numerical tool by implementing PTO modeling capability within
