Lateral Cyclic Responses of OWT Monopile in Soft Clays
摘要
It is very important to analyze the lateral cyclic response of monopiles for the design of offshore wind turbines (OWTs). A three-dimensional finite element method for lateral cyclic responses of large-diameter monopiles is developed based on a simplified constitutive model of clays that has been successfully encoded into the ABAQUS software package (as detailed in Chap. 2 ).