Foundations for offshore wind turbines in Australian carbonate seabed soils

该项目旨在能够在澳大利亚近海普遍存在的具有挑战性的碳酸盐砂质沉积物中预测海上风力涡轮机的基础性能。这对一个新兴行业意义重大，每个项目耗资数百亿美元，基金会占开发成本的四分之一。该项目期望根据从创新的实验和数值技术中获得的先进理解，为这些复杂的不同土壤条件提供指导。预期结果包括通过显著减少不确定性来降低风险。因此，这项研究应该带来负担得起的清洁能源和创造就业机会的重大经济和社会效益。

This projects aims to enable performance prediction of foundations for offshore wind turbines in the challenging carbonate sandy sediments which are prevalent offshore Australia. This is significant for an emerging industry with each project costing tens of billions of dollars and foundations accounting for a quarter of the development cost. This project expects to provide guidance for these complex different soil conditions that is based on advanced understanding obtained from innovative experimental and numerical techniques. Expected outcomes include de-risking through significantly reduced uncertainties. This research should therefore lead to significant economic and societal benefits of affordable clean energy and generation of jobs.