Design for Cyclic Loading of Wind Turbine Monopiles

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Design for cyclic loading of wind turbine monopiles

Chaired by Prof. Byron Byrne from the University of Oxford and Avi Shonberg from Ørsted 

Monday 12 May, 1:00 - 2.00pm

This webinar will provide valuable insights into the cyclic loading of offshore wind turbine monopiles, exploring industry perspectives and recent academic work. Avi Shonberg, Chief Specialist in Geotechnical Engineering at Ørsted, will highlight current challenges facing the industry, particularly those related to the design of monopile foundations. Professor Byron Byrne from the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub will provide an overview of the PICASO project, a recent research initiative, led by the University of Oxford, that explores new monopile design methods that specifically address cyclic loading.

About the Speakers

Avi Shonberg, Chief Geotechnical Engineer at Ørsted

Mr Avi Shonberg is a Chief Geotechnical Engineer at Ørsted in London, UK. With more than 15 years’ experience as a geotechnical engineer, Mr Shonberg has had a focus on offshore foundation design since joining Ørsted in 2014, with a particular focus on suction bucket design, pile design, pile load testing, soil-structure interaction, cyclic effects on soils and 3D finite element modelling. Mr Shonberg has experience across the full life cycle of offshore wind farm development, including scoping of offshore site investigation works and laboratory campaigns, geohazard/risk assessments, foundation concept studies, scoping and managing full-scale pile loading tests and responsibility for the detailed geotechnical design of numerous offshore wind farms in northern Europe and Taiwan. He is actively involved in current state-of-the-art geotechnical research, is currently a TP member of ISO/TC 67/SC 7/Working Group 10 (TP3 Shallow and Intermediate Foundations) and currently sits on the SUT OSIG Committee. 

Professor Byron Byrne, Co-Director of Supergen ORE Hub

Professor Byron Byrne is Professor of Engineering Science, Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub and Ørsted / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Geotechnical Design at the University of Oxford. He leads on research into the geotechnical engineering for offshore wind and other renewable energy structures. He was Principal Investigator for the Carbon Trust / Ørsted / Industry funded PISA project (2013-2018), which won the BGA’s Fleming Award for 2017, for delivering new design methods for large diameter offshore wind turbine monopiles. He currently leads on the Oxford–Ørsted Framework research project (2018-2028) on cyclic loading for offshore wind foundations and was a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC / industry ALPACA Project (2018-2023). He is a Co-Investigator on the Strathclyde / Oxford / Edinburgh EPSRC CDT for Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures (2019-2027), and was the Oxford Director, and Co-Investigator, for the Cranfield / Oxford / Strathclyde EPSRC CDT for Renewable Energy Marine Structures (2014-2022).