Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP230101849
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Reducing geotechnical design conservatism to secure floating wind energy. The next frontier for offshore wind energy is moving further out to sea to avail of stronger and more consistent wind speeds. In these water depths, wind turbines are installed on floaters tethered to anchors in the seabed. Geotechnical design of anchors is inherently conservative, having been shaped by technical and economic considerations of oil and gas facilities. The offshore wind energy industry cannot afford to adopt such conservatism if floating wind is to become commercially viable. This project will, through numerical developments, geotechnical centrifuge modelling and field testing, develop the science that will lead to a reliability-based geotechnical design approach to make floating offshore wind energy economic and viable.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2023
End Date: 12-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $594,700.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Civil engineering | Civil geotechnical engineering
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
