Abstract
Today, wind energy offers the most competitive production prices for renewable energy. Therefore there are strong political and industrial forces, especially in northern Europe, which support the development of the offshore wind industry. The present paper presents the results of drained tests on offshore bucket foundations for wind turbines in saturated dense sand. The bearing capacity of bucket foundations subject to combined loadings which are of interest particularly to the offshore geotechnical engineers, were calculated and found to be largely dependent on embedment ratios and load paths. Based on the results of the analyses, new failure criteria are calibrated for bucket foundations, in contrast to previous studies using the failure envelop e approach which have suggested that yield surface is constant in shape.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Seventh International Conference on Case Stories in Geotechnical Engineering : and Symposium in Honor of Clyde Baker |
| Editors | Shamsher Prakash |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publisher | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Chapter | Paper no. 2.21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1-887009-17-5 (CD) |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | International Conference on Case Stories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symposium in Honor of Clyde Baker: and Symposium in Honor of Clyde Baker - Missouri University of Science and Technology, Wheeling (Chicago), Illinois, United States Duration: 29 Apr 2013 → 4 May 2013 Conference number: 7 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Case Stories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symposium in Honor of Clyde Baker |
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| Number | 7 |
| Location | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Wheeling (Chicago), Illinois |
| Period | 29/04/2013 → 04/05/2013 |
Keywords
- Bucket Foundation
- Combined Loading
- Failure Criterion
- Yield Surface
- Failure Criteria