Suction caisson foundations for offshore wind turbines

Wind Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 145-155

  Byrne, Byron ^a   Houlsby, Guy ^a   Martin, Chris ^a   Fish, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEG Micon UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAISSONS; FOUNDATIONS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

SUCTION-INSTALLED SKIRTED FOUNDATIONS;

WIND TURBINES;

CAISSON; FOUNDATION; OFFSHORE PLATFORM; SUCTION; WIND TURBINE;

CAISSON; FOUNDATION; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SUCTION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 0036951851     PISSN: 0309524X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/030952402762056063     Document Type: Article

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