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An anchoring system for supporting platforms for wind energy devices

Published:2023-09-04 Issue: Volume: Page:1-14
ISSN:1353-2618
Container-title:Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering
language:en
Short-container-title:Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering

Author:

Sivakumar Vinayagamoorthy¹,Fanning Joseph²,Gavin Ken³,Tripathy Snehasis⁴,Bradshaw Aaron⁵,Murray Edward J.⁶,Black Jonathan⁷,Donohue Shane⁸

Affiliation:

1. Reader, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK (corresponding author: )

2. Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK

3. Professor of Subsurface Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

4. Professor, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

5. Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

6. Consultant, Murray Rix Limited, Stoke Golding, UK

7. Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK

8. Associate Professor, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Abstract

This paper presents data from an initial development stage of an ‘umbrella anchor’ concept. The anchor can be pushed into a sand deposit in a folded arrangement to reduce installation loads. When a pull-out load is applied to the mooring line, the anchor deploys to create a large embedded plate anchor. Physical modelling was carried out in a saturated sand bed with the anchor installed at depths of up to 1.6 m and loaded vertically. During installation, liquefaction was generated at the tip of the anchor to reduce the penetration resistance. This enabled the anchor to be installed quickly and accurately to a target depth. The anchor could provide pull-out resistances comparable to an anchor that has been wished-in-place at similar depths. The observed behaviour provided encouraging preliminary results and suggests that, with further development and analysis, the concept could potentially be used for commercial applications.

Publisher

Thomas Telford Ltd.

Subject

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

Link

https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.1680/jgeen.22.00245

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