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Seismic response of towers of offshore wind turbines on sliding foundations at the port quayside

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  • Torrielli, Alessio
  • Giusti, Alessandro

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Offshore wind energy plays a crucial role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving the net-zero target. However, the strong competition in the market constantly pushes the wind turbine manufacturers to lower the cost of energy production, also reducing the cost of installation. To shorten expensive marine operations, towers of offshore wind turbines are usually assembled, without rotor-nacelle assembly, at the quayside of pre-assembly harbors on freestanding gravity-based foundations. In the attempt to develop a cheap damping strategy, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has explored the use of sliding at the soil-foundation interface to mitigate the seismic excitation of towers at the harbor quayside. This paper presents a technique to compute the seismic response of flexible tower-like structures supported by a rigid foundation, free to slide, in the framework of nonlinear response history analysis. The nonlinearity introduced by sliding is circumvented through a linear state approach, consisting of piecing together analytical solutions of the structural system switching between two linear states, i.e., rest and sliding. The effectiveness of the technique and the reduction of the seismic actions in case of sliding foundation are presented through the case study of wind turbine towers on a freestanding foundation at the Port of Messina (Italy) under seismic loading.

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  • Torrielli, Alessio & Giusti, Alessandro, 2026. "Seismic response of towers of offshore wind turbines on sliding foundations at the port quayside," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 256(PB).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:256:y:2026:i:pb:s0960148125015514
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2025.123887
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