Research

Offshore Engineering research projects/themes

Underwater Acoustic Simulation Tools
The Underwater Acoustic simulation tools developed by our research team are accessible at ua.citg.tudelft.nl. You can freely request our stand-alone software packages and algorithms for the research and education purposes.

Arctic Engineering

• Ice-induced vibration [1]
• Ice-vessel interaction [1,2]
• Numerical modeling of ice and ice structure interactions

Offshore Wind

• Soil-structure interaction at offshore wind support structures [1,2]
• Coupled dynamics of offshore wind turbines [1]
• Non-linear dynamics of a slip joint connection for offshore wind turbines [1]
• Application of fluid power technology for offshore wind turbines [1]
• Underwater noise mitigation for offshore pile-driving [1]

Riser dynamics

• Vortex-induced vibration
• Pipeline dynamics 
• Dynamics and stability of deep water risers during J-lay [1]

Identification and monitoring

• Prediction of fatigue from operational vibrations [1]
• Dynamic force identification [1]
• Optimal experiment design
• Identification of ice loads

Dynamic soil-structure interaction

• Dynamics of coupled linear-nonlinear systems in the time domain
• Soil-structure interaction at offshore wind support structures [1,2]