Abstract
This chapter presents a study on the behaviour of monopiles for offshore wind turbines under lateral loading, with a special focus on monopiles grounded in clayey soils. It considers a one-way cyclic loading in order to analyze the effect of cyclical accumulation on force- displacement curves of monopiles. The chapter is based on an anisotropic constitutive law, the influence of both types of anisotropy has been studied. It dedicates to the numerical analysis of the monopile. The chapter discusses two cases of monotonic and cyclic lateral loading in order to study the effect of different aspects of soil behaviour in p-y reaction curves. Two-dimensional modeling in the plane deformation state is then only valid for the second failure mechanism. Pile monotonic loading is controlled in displacement. It consists of applying a lateral displacement to the section of the pile with a constant rate of up to 10% of the diameter of the pile.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Risk Evaluation And Climate Change Adaptation Of Civil Engineering Infrastructures And Buildings |
| Subtitle of host publication | Project RI-ADAPTCLIM |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Pages | 57-83 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119671428 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781786304865 |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Oct 2019 |
Keywords
- Anisotropic constitutive law
- Cyclic lateral loading
- Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles behaviour
- One-way cyclic loading
- Pile monotonic loading
- Two-dimensional modelling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering