Offshore windturbine may be settled on foundations up to 50 m deep. Several types of foundations exist. The main ones are the monopile foundation, and the jacket foundation. Such structure exist since 2001 in North Europe and several farms are forecast on the French coastline.

 Project SURFFEOL (Région PdL): Surveillance des Fondations d'Eoliennes Offshore (Offshore windturbone foundations monitoring)

Contacts: Xavier Chapeleau, Sylvain Chataigner, Laurent Gaillet

 Project FONDEOL2 (Region PdL): Développement des fondations de type "jackets"(Jacket foundation development)

Contacts: Xavier Chapeleau, Laurent Gaillet, Luc Thorel

 Project SHM OWT Grout (Weamec): Structural Health Monitoring of Offshore Wind Turbine Grouted Connection

Contacts: Xavier Chapeleau, Sylvain Chataigner, Laurent Gaillet

 Project DYNA (Weamec): Dynamic analysis of an offshore wind turbine taking into account the soil foundation-structure interaction

Contacts: Matthieu Blanc, Luc Thorel

Main goals

• Help on the location definition of the offshore windturbine foundations,
• Help on the design of offshore windturbine foundations,
• Assess their life expectancy and propose some monitoring and maintenance methods,
• Assess the different solutions on the whole life,
• Technical assistance to public owners.