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Technical Reports are published for timely dissemination of research results and scientific work carried out at the Department of Civil Engineering (DCE) at Aalborg University. This medium allows publication of more detailed explanations and results than typically allowed in scientific journals.Technical Memoranda are produced to enable the preliminary dissemination of scientific work by the personnel of the DCE where such release is deemed to be appropriate. Documents of this kind may be incomplete or temporary versions of papers-or part of continuing work. This should be kept in mind when references are given to publications of this kind.Contract Reports are produced to report scientific work carried out under contract. Publications of this kind contain confidential matter and are reserved for the sponsors and the DCE. Therefore, Contract Reports are generally not available for public circulation.Lecture Notes contain material produced by the lecturers at the DCE for educational purposes. This may be scientific notes, lecture books, example problems or manuals for laboratory work, or computer programs developed at the DCE.Theses are monograms or collections of papers published to report the scientific work carried out at the DCE to obtain a degree as either PhD or Doctor of Technology. The thesis is publicly available after the defence of the degree.Latest News is published to enable rapid communication of information about scientific work carried out at the DCE. This includes the status of research projects, developments in the laboratories, information about collaborative work and recent research results. Monopod bucket foundations under cyclic lateral loading AbstractThe monopod bucket foundation can be a cost-reducing sub-structure for offshore wind turbines. To avoid problems during the turbine operation, the long-term effect of cyclic loading must be considered in the design of the foundation. In this paper a 1g testing rig is adopted to extend the knowledge on bucket foundations under lateral cyclic loading. The test setup is described in detail and a comprehensive experimental campaign is presented. The foundation is subjected to cyclic overturning moment, cyclic horizontal loading and constant vertical loading, acting on the same plane for thousands of cycles. Three buckets with different embedment ratios are tested. The data interpretation is focused on the long-term permanent rotation of the foundation and, particularly, on understanding how the controlling variables influence the potential for rotation accumulation. New and more general parameters of an empirical model predicting the long-term plastic rotation are proposed on the base of the experimental results. List of notation
Technical Reports are published for timely dissemination of research results and scientific work carried out at the Department of Civil Engineering (DCE) at Aalborg University. This medium allows publication of more detailed explanations and results than typically allowed in scientific journals.Technical Memoranda are produced to enable the preliminary dissemination of scientific work by the personnel of the DCE where such release is deemed to be appropriate. Documents of this kind may be incomplete or temporary versions of papers-or part of continuing work. This should be kept in mind when references are given to publications of this kind.Contract Reports are produced to report scientific work carried out under contract. Publications of this kind contain confidential matter and are reserved for the sponsors and the DCE. Therefore, Contract Reports are generally not available for public circulation.Lecture Notes contain material produced by the lecturers at the DCE for educational purposes. This may be scientific notes, lecture books, example problems or manuals for laboratory work, or computer programs developed at the DCE.Theses are monograms or collections of papers published to report the scientific work carried out at the DCE to obtain a degree as either PhD or Doctor of Technology. The thesis is publicly available after the defence of the degree.Latest News is published to enable rapid communication of information about scientific work carried out at the DCE. This includes the status of research projects, developments in the laboratories, information about collaborative work and recent research results. Monopod bucket foundations under cyclic lateral loading AbstractThe monopod bucket foundation can be a cost-reducing sub-structure for offshore wind turbines. To avoid problems during the turbine operation, the long-term effect of cyclic loading must be considered in the design of the foundation. In this paper a 1g testing rig is adopted to extend the knowledge on bucket foundations under lateral cyclic loading. The test setup is described in detail and a comprehensive experimental campaign is presented. The foundation is subjected to cyclic overturning moment, cyclic horizontal loading and constant vertical loading, acting on the same plane for thousands of cycles. Three buckets with different embedment ratios are tested. The data interpretation is focused on the long-term permanent rotation of the foundation and, particularly, on understanding how the controlling variables influence the potential for rotation accumulation. New and more general parameters of an empirical model predicting the long-term plastic rotation are proposed on the base of the experimental results. List of notation
Monopiles are the predominant type of foundation used for offshore wind turbines. The increase in size of monopiles and the stricter environmental regulations in terms of underwater noise levels has motivated the development of alternatives to the conventional impact-driving method of monopile installation. One of the alternatives is the (axial) vibratory installation, which has been previously studied in field [1, 2, 4] and laboratory [3, 5] conditions. However, there is limited knowledge on the effects of vibratory installation (and how these effects differ from those caused by impact-driving) on the lateral response of monopiles. This extended abstract presents the results of an ongoing Join Industry Project (SIMOX – Sustainable Installation of XXL Monopiles) which aims at comparing different installation methods from the point of view of driveability, noise emissions and lateral response. The present abstract particularly focuses on the lateral response of monopiles. As a first step towards the large-scale onshore field tests to be executed in 2023, a laboratory study was conducted at the Water-Soil Flume at Deltares, in Delft (NL), which consists of a tank with 9.0 m of length, 5.5 m of width and 2.5 m of depth, with a multipurpose wagon on rails above it (Figure 1). The tank was filled with saturated Sibelco S90 sand up to a height of 2.4 m in compacted layers of 50 cm. The experimental programme consisted of 4 batches (batches 1, 2 and 3 with dense sand and batch 4 with medium-dense sand) in which piles of diameter D = 32 cm, embedded length L = 1.5 m and wall thickness t = 4 mm or 10 mm were installed and loaded laterally. While batch 1 focused on driveability aspects, in the other three batches 8 piles were installed (per batch) and subsequently subjected to lateral loading. The centre-to-centre distance between piles was 8D in the loading direction and 6.5D perpendicular to the loading direction. The distance between the piles and walls of the tank was 4.3D. All distances were larger than the minimum distances recommended in the literature [6]. The piles were installed with two different methods: vibratory-driven, using a hydraulic vibro-hammer APE-23 with an eccentric moment of 1.3 kg.m, and impact-driven, using a dropping weight impact-hammer HL750. For each method, selected installation parameters were varied, namely the vibratory frequency and lowering speed of the crane for vibrated piles, and dropping mass and fall height for the impact-driven piles. Lateral loading was applied at the pile head by means of an in-house built lateral loading device consisting of an electric motor connected to a spindle. The lateral displacements were measured by a magnetostrictive linear position sensor, independent of the lateral loading system. The loading regime consisted of an initial monotonic loading up to 25% of Hult (where Hult is defined as the load at which the pile exhibits a displacement of 0.1D at ground level – obtained from 3D FE analyses), followed by cyclic loading (1000 cycles for most piles) and a final monotonic stage up to the maximum load. The different combinations of lowering speeds of the crane (low, high) with the different frequencies of the vibro-hammer (low, high) led to different types of vibratory installation: crane controlled or free hanging. Under crane-controlled installation, the full weight of the pile-hammer system is sustained by the overhead crane, hence the crane load measured by a load cell oscillates around the static weight of the pile-hammer system. Under free-hanging conditions, on the other hand, the load taken by the crane is zero, meaning that the weight of the pile-hammer system is fully taken by the soil – both by shaft friction and tip resistance. The results in dense sand showed that the initial monotonic response of the piles is affected by the vibration mode, and not by the installation frequency or penetration speed alone. While the crane-controlled vibrated piles exhibited lateral stiffness similar (i.e. slightly lower) to the impact-driven piles, the free-hanging vibrated piles showed markedly lower lateral stiffness compared to the other piles. The softer behaviour observed for these piles could be attributed to various reasons, such as the difficulty in controlling the pile verticality during installation. For all free hanging piles, inclination was observed approximately half-way through installation, which was corrected in the final part of installation. The exact inclination during installation was not measured, which will be done in the onshore field tests. The test results showed, however, that during cyclic loading the differences in lateral stiffness decrease, i.e. the softest piles in the initial monotonic stage were the ones that exhibited the largest gain in lateral cyclic stiffness, whereas the stiffest piles in the initial loading stage were the ones with the smallest increase in stiffness during cyclic loading.
Monopiles werden als Gründungen für die Offshore‐Windenergieanlagen (OWEA) in Nord‐ und Ostsee geplant und eingesetzt. Die Monopilegründungen werden neben den statischen Lasten insbesondere durch die hochzyklischen Horizontalbelastungen aus Wind und Wellengang beansprucht. Aufgrund der zyklischen Belastungen findet eine Akkumulation der Bodenverformungen und gleichzeitig auch der bleibenden Pfahlverschiebungen statt, die derzeit mit einem praxistauglichen Verfahren zuverlässig nicht quantifiziert werden können. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird ein anwendungsorientiertes Bemessungsmodell vorgestellt, welches unter Verwendung von statischen und zyklischen Triaxialversuchen eine Prognose der Verschiebungen von Monopiles unter zyklischen Horizontallasten mit variierenden Belastungsamplituden ermöglicht. Die Verifikation des vorgestellten Modells erfolgt durch eine Reihe von Monopileversuchen, die in der Geotechnischen Versuchsgrube der TU Berlin durchgeführten wurden. Die Anwendbarkeit des Modells zur Ermittlung der über die Nutzungsdauer einer OWEA zu erwartenden Verschiebungen der Monopilegründung wird anhand einer Beispielrechnung gezeigt.A design model for monopile foundations under cyclic horizontal loads. Monopiles are used and planned for foundations of offshore wind power turbines in the Northern and Baltic Sea. Besides the static loads, these piles are also subjected to high numbers of cyclic horizontal loads due to wind and water waves. The accumulation of soil deformations and pile displacements due to cyclic loads can not be reliably calculated based on current design methods. The paper presents a practical design approach for the prediction of monopile displacements due to irregular cyclic horizontal loads which can be suitably calibrated by means of static and cyclic triaxial test results. The design approach has been validated with results from monopile load tests. The practical application of the proposed method demonstrates its usefulness for the prediction of monopile displacements over the service lifetime of an offshore wind power turbine.
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