Seabed scour around offshore foundations Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 27 November 2018
- Venue:
- Life Sciences Building (85) Room 2207
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Prof. Rober Nicholls at r.j.nicholls@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Offshore wind farm foundations are constantly exposed to complex hydrodynamic conditions, which create considerable uncertainty in the prediction of seabed scour and the design of scour protection. This is of critical importance in the design process, because excessive scour can lead to structural failure while conservative design can add massively to costs. This talk will describe recent experimental research carried out at UCL to measure scour; (i) around gravity-based structures, leading to development of a new formula to predict the scour around marine structures with complex geometries, (ii) around monopiles subject to structural movement, in cohesive and non-cohesive sediments and (iii) around monopiles subject to tidally reversing currents.
Speaker information
Professor Richard Simons. Richard Simons is Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Coastal Engineering at University College London. His main research interests lie in the field of Coastal Engineering, with particular emphasis on experimental hydrodynamics, the study of wave-current interaction and fluid effects on sediment, structures and seabed scour, using flumes, basins, water tunnels and tests at field scale. Richard was also until recently Director of Studies and oversaw the introduction of new scenario-based engineering degree programmes at UCL.