Print Email Facebook Twitter Concept Design of Steel Bottom Founded Support Structures for Offshore Wind Turbines Title Concept Design of Steel Bottom Founded Support Structures for Offshore Wind Turbines Author Van Wijngaarden, M.J.P. Contributor Sliggers, P.G.F. (mentor) Hoogenboom, P.C.J. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Programme Offshore Engineering / Structural Engineering Date 2013-06-09 Abstract To meet growing energy demands wind energy has become an important source of energy. In the last decade wind turbines have been installed offshore to accommodate even more wind power. The offshore wind resource is of a better quality, resulting in higher electricity output. On the other hand, the costs of constructing and installing support structures for these turbines offshore is higher than onshore. Therefore offshore turbines are being made larger to economize in the support structure and installation costs. As the technology for wind turbines improves, the industry has developed wind turbines with rotor diameters as large as 150 m and power ratings of 8.0 MW. It is the intention to build wind farms in water depths of even 60 meters. The combination of increasing water depths, increasing wind tower heights and rotor blade diameters creates loads that complicate the foundation design. All of these factors pose significant challenges in the design and construction of wind turbine support structures and foundations. Subject offshore windsteelbottom foundedsupport structuresconcept designwind Turbinedynamics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f3c4acf7-ca30-45c9-8ee1-945dafe2e2dd Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights (c) 2013 Van Wijngaarden, M.J.P. Files PDF BSc_Thesis_Martijn_van_Wi ... aarden.pdf 4.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f3c4acf7-ca30-45c9-8ee1-945dafe2e2dd/datastream/OBJ/view