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Coordinator |
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
Project website | https://www.researchgate.net/project/Development-of-screw-anchors-for-floating-Marine-Renewable-Energy-system-arrays-incorporating-anchor-sharing |
Total cost | 195˙454 € |
EC max contribution | 195˙454 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility) |
Code Call | H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 |
Funding Scheme | MSCA-IF-EF-ST |
Starting year | 2017 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-08-01 to 2019-07-31 |
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1 | UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE | UK (DUNDEE) | coordinator | 195˙454.00 |
Classical anchoring solutions are inappropriate for the development of new marine renewable energy devices (wind/waves/tides). They are too expensive and not efficient. Organising devices in arrays is a solution where adjacent devices share an anchor. It reduces the total number of anchors necessary and the overall cost. In turn the loading applied to an anchor is a complex combination of horizontal and uplift cyclic loads. Screw anchors are piles which are fitted with one or several helices at their end. They are installed into the soil by applying a torque and are assumed to have an excellent resistance against uplifting. The objective of this work is to study the fundamental behaviour of screw anchors upon complex loading in sand. A unique database of physical modelling tests (using cutting edge centrifuge apparatus) representative of small arrays of devices will be developed. In particular the tests will assess their uplift capacity after low level cyclic loading (fatigue behaviour). Numerical simulations, validated against experimental results, will provide additional information. Finally a new design methodology taking into account multi-directional and fatigue loading will be derived. This comprehensive topic has never been investigated before in sand. The University of Dundee offers cutting edge centrifuge facilities and has an outstanding experience in physical modelling. A designed experimental set-up is able to install screw piles in flight and apply a multi-directional loading. I will build on my strong background in numerical modelling to carry out the numerical part of the project. EU targets the ambitious objective to derive 20% of its electricity production from renewable sources by 2020. The energy revolution has just started and should generate many jobs and investments in Europe. This project will clear technical and economical hurdles associated with anchoring. It will improve competitiveness and leadership of EU on the renewable energy market.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2020 |
Benjamin Cerfontaine, Jonathan Knappett, Michael John Brown , Craig Davidson, Therar Al-Baghdadi, Yaseen Sharif, Andrew Brennan, Charles Augarde, William Coombs, Lei Wang, Anthony Blake, David Richards and Jon Ball (Submitted for publication) A Finite Element approach for determining the full load-displacement relationship of axially-loaded screw anchors, incorporating installation effects published pages: , ISSN: 0008-3674, DOI: |
Canadian Geotechnical Journal | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Cerfontaine, B., Knappett, J., Brown, M., Bradsaw, A. S. Design of plate and screw anchors in dense sand: failure mechanism, capacity and deformation published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019) | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Brown, M., Sharif, Y., Ciantia, M., Knappett, J., Davidson, C., Cerfontaine, B., Robinson, S. Numerically modelling the installation and loading of screw piles using dem published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications, Dundee, United Kingdom. | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Brown, M., Davidson, C., Brennan, A., Knappett, J., Cerfontaine, B., Sharif, Y. Physical modelling of screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications, Dundee, United Kingdom. | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Cerfontaine, B., Knappett, J., Brown, M., Davidson, C., Sharif, Y. Screw pile design optimisation under tension in sand published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.32075/17ecsmge-2019-0696 |
Proceedings of the XVII ECSMGE-2019 | 2020-01-27 |
2020 |
Benjamin Cerfontaine, Jonathan Knappett, Michael John Brown, Craig Davidson, Yaseen Sharif (Submitted for publication) Optimised design of screw anchors in tension in sand for renewable energy applications published pages: , ISSN: 0951-8339, DOI: |
Marine Structures | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Cerfontaine, B., Brown, M., Knappett, J., Davidson, C. Finite element modelling of the uplift behaviour of screw piles in sand published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.20933/100001123 |
Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications | 2020-01-27 |
2019 |
Benjamin Cerfontaine, Jonathan A. Knappett, Michael J. Brown, Aaron S. Bradshaw Effect of soil deformability on the failure mechanism of shallow plate or screw anchors in sand published pages: 34-45, ISSN: 0266-352X, DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.01.007 |
Computers and Geotechnics 109 | 2020-01-27 |
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