Offshore Engineering

> Jacking-related services

> In order to install the wind turbine generators, jack-up vessels require to jack down to the seabed to provide a stable platform for the operations. Below is a list of our jacking-related services:

- Leg penetration analysis based on ISO 19905 standard

- Risk analysis

- Jacking footprint analysis and determination of safe jacking distance

- Punch-through risk determination

- Full 3D model of jack-up vessel, spudcan and subsoil

- Spudcan extraction analysis

- Analysis of complex soil conditions with respect to the jacking feasibility

- Jacking on seabed slopes, boulders or any other challenging environment

- Third-party review of the engineering reports

Useful links:

Simulation of jacking footprint on the nearby seabed.
The extent of the footprint depends on spudcan geometry, final penetration, shape as well as soil layering and geotechnical properties.

Spudcan boulder interaction analysis. Boulder size, soil geomechanical properties, soil layering, spudcan shape as well as the jacking position with respect to boulder are all amongst the parameters influencing the eccentric forces on the spudcan.

> WTG Foundation

> Geo-Wise employs advanced simulation techniques such as FEM, DEM and SPH for a wide range of foundation installation-related services such as:

- Foundation installation (vibratory driving or hydro-hammer)

- Suction bucket installation

- Self-weight penetration of WTG foundations with scour protection layer

- Full 3D dynamic analysis of WTG foundation

- Modal and frequency domain analysis

- Soil-structure interaction

- Analysis of pore water pressure induced by installation activities

FEM simulations: Left: visualization of the plastic strains around monopile annulus subject to a collision; Right: monopile out-of-plane displacements in 1st mode of natural frequency.

Simulation of a monopile lowered down by a crane on a scour protection layer. The velocity magnitudes are visualized.

The loads on the monopile annulus are monitored and later checked if they cause any plastic deformations or local buckling.

> Floating offshore wind

- Full 3D CFD analysis of floater and mooring lines

- Design and analysis of mooring lines, patterns and forces

- Design of seabed anchors (DEA / VLA / Suction piles / Torpedos / etc)

- Analysis of dragging distance and dragging penetration of dragging anchors

Failure patterns (strain contours) of a VLA embedded in soft soil.

A demo case of a floating WTG platform moored by four cables.

Failure patterns (strain contours) of a VLA embedded in soft soil.

> Subsea cables and pipelines

> With regard to the subsea cables Geo-Wise provides help and assistance by offering the following services:

- Full 3D analysis of jetting swords for cable burials

- Design of nozzle arrangement, and configuration

- Fine-tunning the nozzle pressure to bring the sentiments into a fluidized state

- Determination of jetting sword footprint sideways and longitudinal

- Determination of soil frictional stress on the jet swords

- Geotechnical analysis of pipeline and export cables

- Full analysis of cable burials by ploughing

- Stability of trench


Fluidization and subsequent scouring mechanism when soil is subjected to the action of water jets in two different soils and under two jetting conditions

> Scouring

> Geo-Wise is capable of performing coupled analysis to predict the extent of the scouring around:

- Spudcans

- WTG foundations

- Seabed anchors


Sand bed scouring subject to a strong horizontal water jet.

> Risk & damage analysis of detonation induced by seabed UXOs

> Damage analysis of full and partial UXO detonation to the nearby soil and seabed installations (pipelines, wind turbine foundation, and sub-sea structures)

Plastic strains induced by detonation of a buried TNT-based UXO