Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-41642-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Wind Energy Engineering

Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations: Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches offers an in-depth exploration of the complex challenges and potential solutions arising in the design and maintenance of offshore wind installations, covering the whole range of OWT foundation types, including gravity-based and deep foundations, suction caissons, and anchors for floating turbines, with special emphasis given to monopiles, as the most common type of foundation at present. Key aspects addressed include current design practices and standards, characterization of soils, sea depth, soil types, and loads, soil-structure interaction, long-term behavior of offshore wind turbines, decommissioning, recycling, and reuse of offshore wind turbine foundations, and future trends. Additionally, valuable case studies are used as a reference for practical guidance and for future designs, helping practitioners to learn from past experiences. By bridging the gap between theoretical concepts, research lines and real applications, this latest volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering Series will equip both practitioners and researchers with the knowledge and tools needed to address the very particular challenges of offshore wind turbine foundations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lopez-Querol, Susana

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energietechnik & Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Meerestechnik, ablandige Plattformen
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. General aspects of offshore wind turbine foundations: Review of current design practices and standards
2. Site and laboratory investigation: Characterization of soils
3. Type of offshore wind foundations for different sea depths, soil types and loads:

4. Soil-structure interaction of offshore wind turbines
5. Long-term behaviour of offshore wind turbines
6. Decommissioning, recycling, and reusing offshore wind turbine foundations
7. Case studies - offshore wind turbine foundations
8. Offshore wind turbine foundations: Conclusions and future research trends

Über Autor(innen)

Lopez-Querol, Susana
Susana Lopez-Querol, PhD, MEng, CEng, MICE, joined University College London (UCL) in 2015 as an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering. She has more than 20 years of experience as an academic at various universities in Spain and the UK. Her research interests mainly lie in the Soil Dynamics field. She is an expert in advanced numerical simulation in geotechnical engineering, and interested in the constitutive behaviour of soil under dynamic loading, from both experimental and numerical points of view. Susana has been investigating different aspects related to the foundations of offshore structures during the last decade. She has supervised more than 10 PhD students to completion, several of them specifically in topics related to offshore wind turbine foundations. She has a significant number of academic publications on those topics, both in journals, conferences and book chapters, and led a project on the experimental investigation of the installation of monopiles in the centrifuge (at TU Delft).