Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations
Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Susana Lopez-Querol
- Language: English
Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations: Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches offers an in-depth exploration of the complex challenges and potential solutions arising in the de… Read more
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Description
Description
Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations: Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Approaches offers an in-depth exploration of the complex challenges and potential solutions arising in the design and maintenance of offshore wind installations, covering the whole range of OWT foundation types, including gravity-based and deep foundations, suction caissons, and anchors for floating turbines, with special emphasis given to monopiles, as the most common type of foundation at present. Key aspects addressed include current design practices and standards, characterization of soils, sea depth, soil types, and loads, soil-structure interaction, long-term behavior of offshore wind turbines, decommissioning, recycling, and reuse of offshore wind turbine foundations, and future trends. Additionally, valuable case studies are used as a reference for practical guidance and for future designs, helping practitioners to learn from past experiences. By bridging the gap between theoretical concepts, research lines and real applications, this latest volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering Series will equip both practitioners and researchers with the knowledge and tools needed to address the very particular challenges of offshore wind turbine foundations.
Key features
Key features
- Enables readers to learn about geotechnical challenges, standards, and design procedures for offshore wind turbine foundations
- Covers characterization of soils, construction procedures, analytical and numerical analyses for design, retrofitting, and decommissioning
- Analyzes soil-structure interaction, load transfer mechanisms, and dynamic response of foundations under varying environmental conditions, for different types of soils
- Uses case studies to illustrate practical applications and lessons learned, offering valuable insights into best practices and emerging trends
Readership
Readership
Engineers, technicians, and other practitioners involved in offshore wind turbine design and construction
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. General aspects of offshore wind turbine foundations: Review of current design practices and standards
2. Site and laboratory investigation: Characterization of soils
3. Type of offshore wind foundations for different sea depths, soil types and loads:
a. Gravity based
b. Suction caissons
c. Deep foundations (piles)
d. Floating turbines: anchored foundations
4. Soil-structure interaction of offshore wind turbines
a. Installation of monopiles
b. Dynamic response
c. Contact between soil and foundations during dynamic load d. Soil plugging
5. Long-term behaviour of offshore wind turbines
a. Rotation of monopiles during exploitation and extreme loads
b. Scour and its impact on the OWT performance
c. Development of excess pore water pressures and liquefaction
d. Seismic response
e. Operation and maintenance issues
6. Decommissioning, recycling, and reusing offshore wind turbine foundations
a. Current procedures
b. Future trends
7. Case studies - offshore wind turbine foundations
8. Offshore wind turbine foundations: Conclusions and future research trends
2. Site and laboratory investigation: Characterization of soils
3. Type of offshore wind foundations for different sea depths, soil types and loads:
a. Gravity based
b. Suction caissons
c. Deep foundations (piles)
d. Floating turbines: anchored foundations
4. Soil-structure interaction of offshore wind turbines
a. Installation of monopiles
b. Dynamic response
c. Contact between soil and foundations during dynamic load d. Soil plugging
5. Long-term behaviour of offshore wind turbines
a. Rotation of monopiles during exploitation and extreme loads
b. Scour and its impact on the OWT performance
c. Development of excess pore water pressures and liquefaction
d. Seismic response
e. Operation and maintenance issues
6. Decommissioning, recycling, and reusing offshore wind turbine foundations
a. Current procedures
b. Future trends
7. Case studies - offshore wind turbine foundations
8. Offshore wind turbine foundations: Conclusions and future research trends
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Susana Lopez-Querol
Susana Lopez-Querol, PhD, MEng, CEng, MICE, joined University College London (UCL) in 2015 as an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering. She has more than 20 years of experience as an academic, in different universities in Spain and the UK. Her research interests mainly lie in the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics field. She is interested in the constitutive behaviour of soil under dynamic loading, from both experimental and numerical points of view, and has been investigating the effect of dynamic loadings on the foundation of offshore structures during the last decade. Dr. Lopez-Querol has supervised more than 10 PhD students to completion, several of them specifically in topics related to offshore wind turbine foundations. She has a significant number of academic publications on those topics, both in journals, conferences and book chapters, and led a project on the experimental investigation of the installation of monopiles in the centrifuge (at TU Delft).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, University College London, UK