NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Outline of presentation Introduction General Instability Buckling of Piles Buckling of Bucket Foundations Future work
S.Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. IbsenDepartment of Civil Engineering, Aalborg UniversityDivision of Structures, Materials and GeotechnicsResearch Group for Offshore Foundations
Instability during Installation of Foundations for Offshore Structures
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Introduction & Motivation Offshore wind energy is an upcoming source of renewable energy
• Forecast: 16 GW installed by the end of 2014, and global total of 75 GW by 2020 (Cumulative capacity in 2010: 3554 MW)
Foundations constitute approx. 1/3 of total cost of offshore wind farm Deeper water (> 25 m): up to 50%
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
General Instability Optimization of cross section (against global buckling) leads to a hollow cylinder (prone to local
buckling). Literature on buckling behaviour of shell structures from the past decades, is vast
• The abovementioned optimization leads to a high imperfection sensitivity.
Review by others• Teng (1996)– Research within buckling of shells is very active and will be for a long time
• Schmidt (2000): – Much more research is needed. – Future research should focus on applying the high theoretical knowledge and numerical solutions to
unsolved structural problems, not turning the basic shell cases round and round.• Edlund (2007): – Buckling of shells is a very challenging field of research
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Mono piles 75% of all wind parks today Simple fabrication with welded steel pile No preparations of the seabed are necessary. Requires heavy duty piling/drilling equipment Not suitable for locations with many large boulders in
the seabed.
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Jackets and Tripod Suitable for larger water depths. Minimum of preparations are required at the site before
installation Complex welded main structure Known technology from oil & gas industry
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Introduction & Motivation
Instability also an issue for piles
Local buckling (Extrusion of initially deformed pile / Propagation of damaged pile tip)• Goodwyn A platform (1992): 15 of 20 piles severely crushed
Global buckling (Euler buckling)• Pile stick-up during installation• Loss of lateral support caused by scour or liquefaction in the
surrounding soil during an earthquake
(Barbour and Erbrich, 1994 as cited by Erbrich et al., 2011)
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Buckling of Piles
Local buckling• Aldridge et al. (2005): Very simplified analytical expressions• Earl (2002): Finite element model to analyse extrusion buckling (Too simple)• Erbrich et al. (2011): More sophisticated FE model with pile-soil interaction by p-y springs
Global buckling• Bhattacharya et al. (2005): Pile stick-up during installation• Dash et al. (2010): Bending-buckling interaction as a failure mechanism caused by lateral load
during an earthquake combined with a high axial load.
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Introduction & Motivation
The bucket foundation is a thin shell structure At deeper waters, the diameter of the bucket increases Large aspect ratio between caisson diameter and wall thickness Instability (buckling) critical issue during installation
Crucial case of buckling in Wilhelmshaven, Germany in 2005• Bucket diameter 16 m, height 15 m, and skirt thickness 25 mm • 6 MW offshore wind turbine• Buckling at a penetration of 6.8 m (vessel impact)
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Wilhelmshaven installation failure
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
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The prototype for Wilhelmshaven E-112
Our conclusion: The installation was jeopar-dized by a impact of the auxiliary vessel during operation outside the predicted wind
window.
Learning: Plans and procedures to be followed
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Fabrication Fabricated by Bladt Industries
A/S, Denmark
Steel structure
Plate girder lid
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Fabrication The geometric skirt imperfections was measured by a
3D point cloud laser scanner
The maximum out-of-roundness was 50mm
The largest imperfections were along the vertical welding's.
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Buckling of Bucket Foundations Analytical and semi-emperical expressions for the structural buckling pressure of circular cylindrical
shells require assumptions of idealized boundary conditions such as pinned, fixed or free. Pinna and Ronalds (2000) modelled the lateral restraint of the soil by elastic Winkler springs
• Top end of cylinder pinned or clamped. Imperfections not included Pinna et al. (2001) modelled the soil both by an elastic model and an elasto-plastic Tresca model.
• Still idealized assumptions of the end boundary conditions. Only the lowest Eigen-mode considered as imperfection.
We have included the “real” structure of the bucket lid.• A large imperfection based solely on mode 1 can increase the buckling load.
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Buckling of Bucket Foundations
The first 21 modes are included as imperfect geometries• Mode 1 is not the worst mode• For large imperfections higher modes are
more critical
Mode 1 Mode 7 Mode 14
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
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IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of PilesBuckling of Bucket FoundationsFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of Bucket FoundationsBuckling of PilesFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
IntroductionGeneral InstabilityBuckling of Bucket FoundationsBuckling of PilesFuture work
NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
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Dogger Bank: Two Metmast installations - August 2012. 24m of water.
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
Conclusions and Future work Instability issues related to both pile foundations and bucket foundations have been addressed.
• For piles, two overall buckling groups: global buckling (Euler buckling) and local buckling (propagation of initially deformed pile).
• Extensive work has been carried out for basic shell cases. • Some research has been carried out for the buckling issue of bucket foundations. • The authors have initiated their own analyses of the buckling of bucket foundations, and presented
some initial results.
The authors propose increased focus on non-linear finite element analysis of the local buckling issues of piles where the soil is modelled by a continuum model; and not by p-y springs.
Further, more sophisticated methods of predicting the “real” imperfection geometry of the bucket foundation should be implemented in the buckling investigations by the authors.
Also, more advanced analysis of the soil-structure interaction and a nonlinear soil material model should be considered.
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
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NGM 2012 ▪ Copenhagen ▪ 9-12 May 2012 ▪ S. Madsen, L. V. Andersen & L. B. Ibsen
Department of Civil Engineering | Offshore Foundations Group
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