Multi-purpose floating platforms are emerging as a promising concept in ocean engineering
applications, thanks to their capability of ensuring system integration, cost reduction and …

Many floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) concepts are light displacement platforms
moored in shallow water and exposed to significant storms with high winds. Shock loads …

The mooring system has been recognised as a key area of expense that needs to be
addressed to improve the cost competitiveness of floating offshore wind turbines. The …

The mooring system for a floating offshore wind turbine ensures that the platform stays within
pre-defined station keeping limits during operation, while it provides sufficient restraining …

A novel floating-array-buoys wave energy converter (FABWEC) system integrating multi-
point absorption wave energy capturing technology and single-point catenary mooring …

Traditional mooring systems can be unsuitable and uneconomical for floating offshore wind
turbines. Load reduction devices, which are extensible components installed along mooring …

The mooring system for a floating offshore wind turbine is a critical sub-system that ensures
the safe station keeping of the platform and has a key influence on hydrodynamic stability …

The growing marine renewable energy sector has led to a demand for increasingly
compliant mooring systems. In response, several innovative mooring tethers have been …

Existing mooring systems for floating offshore wind turbines are largely based on designs
from the oil and gas industry. Even though these can ensure the safe station keeping of the …

Effective station-keeping of turbines across a range of environmental conditions is critical for
the development of the floating wind industry. This paper investigates the influence of …