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Floating Wind Mooring

Mooring and station-keeping for floating offshore wind turbines and arrays.

Class B
Floating Wind
FOWT
Mooring
Arrays

What this expert provides

The Floating Wind Mooring expert specifies mooring systems for floating offshore wind turbines and arrays on semi-submersible, spar, barge and TLP floaters: line count and layout, line composition, pretension and anchor type, including shared anchors and shared lines.

Expert Profile

Screens options with transparent weighted criteria, runs a quasi-static multi-line analysis under turbine-driven load cases, and turns the governing standard's check into a per-line dynamic tension budget that the coupled analysis must meet. Coupled time-domain analysis is done by OrcaFlex, anchor capacity by Anchor & Pile Design, and compliance by Regulatory Compliance.

Key Capabilities

  • Line count, layout and composition (chain, polyester, nylon, wire, buoys, clump weights)
  • Weighted option screening (cost per MW, redundancy, offset, fatigue)
  • Quasi-static multi-line analysis with intact and line-failure sweeps
  • Per-line dynamic tension budget for the coupled analysis
  • Shared anchors and lines, cascade assessment and pooled spares