Scour development around Mono Bucket Foundations

Offshore field results are very important for correlating experimental and numerical research. The cost of mobilising a seabed survey in the marine environment is high, and not many developers or offshore wind farm owners are willing to pay or to publish results with the seabed changes around offshore wind turbine foundations. In this context, the present industrial PhD project provides with the courtesy of Universal Foundation A/S such results to the research and public view. The results collected offshore with erosion (scour) development around Mono Bucket foundations are unique and provides value to the design process by reducing the costs of offshore wind turbines. The scour development can place the foundation and the structure in danger if it develops beyond design limits. Thus, engineers place a layer of scour protection to prevent the scour from developing. The Mono Bucket has built-in features to reduce the scour development and to generate cost savings. The present work provides updated guidelines for assessing the scour development for Mono Bucket foundation.