Soil-Monopile Interaction in Offshore Condition
摘要
Renewable energy is the energy obtained from natural resources that replenish itself through a period of time without impoverishing the Earth's resources. In today's era, wind-based energy plays a vital role in energy production sector. Wind turbines are generally used to generate wind-based electrical energy. In the past years, well foundation and pile foundation have come into the picture, but now it is being replaced by single dia steel pile named as monopile, as erosion will not be an issue with this kind of foundation. This foundation comprises a steel pipe of diameter between 3.5 and 7 m & the pile is driven 10 to 20 m into the seabed. Regarding the design, if a monopile rotates in consequence of lateral loading, it also translates vertically against the soil in front of the pile by causing additional shear components. However, the lateral displacement and rotation at the base of the pile create additional lateral shear and moment resistance. The main focus is on accumulated rotation and deflection at the base level, which is, until now, challenging for a simple design approach. From various tests, it is observed that stiffer soils show fewer variations with respect to change in the pile penetration depth in the range 5D to 7D. Besides this, the main objective of this paper is to provide an overview of different lab and field tests conducted to find out the stiffness of soil-monopile under unidirectional and multidirectional loading conditions. Along with that simulation of soil-pile model has been analyzed through ansys to determine the displacement of pile.