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Tianhui Fan, Jianhu Fang, Xinkuan Yan and Yuan Ma
The floating offshore wind turbine provides a feasible solution for the development of renewable ocean energy. However, the sizeable rotor diameter of the wind turbine results in large wind heeling moments and pitch amplitude. It will increase the struct...
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Nianxin Ren, Yuekai Yu, Xiang Li and Jinping Ou
For both the expansion of important islands/reefs and the development of marine resources in South China Sea, a modular integrated floating structure (MIFS) system with tidal self-adaptation dolphin-fender mooring (DFM) has been proposed. The DFM, couple...
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Orrin Lancaster, Remo Cossu, Craig Heatherington, Scott Hunter and Tom E. Baldock
This study provides the first ever published measurements of scour and morphological change around an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Converter (WEC) device at a real-world site, with the intention of informing future designs to reduce costs o...
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Shangyan Zou and Ossama Abdelkhalik
Wave energy converters (WECs) usually require reactive power for increased levels of energy conversion, resulting in the need for more complex power take-off (PTO) units, compared to WECs that do not require reactive power. A WEC without reactive power p...
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Nianxin Ren, Hongbo Wu, Kun Liu, Daocheng Zhou and Jinping Ou
This work presents a modular floating structure, which consists of five inner tension-leg platforms and two outermost wave energy converters (denoted as MTLPW). The hydrodynamic interaction effect and the mechanical coupling effect between the five inner...
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Moisés Brito, Rui M. L. Ferreira, Luis Teixeira, Maria G. Neves and Luís Gil
The main objective of this paper is to characterize the flow field on the front face of an oscillating wave surge converter (OWSC) under a regular wave. For this purpose, the longitudinal and vertical velocity components were measured using an Ultrasonic...
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Hao Wang, Abhilash Somayajula, Jeffrey Falzarano and Zhitian Xie
Traditional linear time-domain analysis is used widely for predicting the motions of floating structures. When it comes to a wave energy structure, which usually is subjected to larger relative (to their geometric dimensions) wave and motion amplitudes, ...
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Yapo Wang, Lixian Zhang, Constantine Michailides, Ling Wan and Wei Shi
Due to the energy crisis and greenhouse effect, offshore renewable energy is attracting increasing attention worldwide. Various offshore renewable energy systems, such as floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), and wave energy converters (WECs), have be...
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Jennifer van Rij, Yi-Hsiang Yu, Yi Guo and Ryan G. Coe
This article presents an example by which design loads for a wave energy converter (WEC) might be estimated through the various stages of the WEC design process. Unlike previous studies, this study considers structural loads, for which, an accurate asses...
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Pengfei Zhang, Zhifeng Tang, Fuzai Lv and Keji Yang
Ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) have attracted attention in the nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring (SHM) of multi-wire cables. They offer such advantages as a single measurement, wide coverage of the acoustic field, and long-range pro...
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Arthur Pecher, Jens Peter Kofoed and Tommy Larsen
The WEPTOS wave energy converter (WEC) is a novel device that combines an established and efficient wave energy absorbing mechanism with a smart structure, which can regulate the amount of incoming wave energy and reduce loads in extreme wave conditions....
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Zeqing Fan, Xiaobin Li, Tao Huang and Wei Chen
A multilayer liquid-containing protective structure is composed of a liquid tank, ceramic, a honeycomb sandwich and homogeneous steel. This structure has superior resistance to combined blast wave and fragment loading. Due to the relatively complicated c...
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Ziyi Zhang, Zhiyuan Hu, Yan Wang, Yawei Wang, Qiqi Zhang, Dehua Liu, Hao Wang and Minyi Xu
The ocean has an abundant reserve of wave energy, which is considered to be a clean, widely distributed and inexhaustible resource. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have been regarded as a reliable technology for harvesting wave energy due to its rob...
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Yan Chen, Min Cao, Chunyan Ma and Zhigang Feng
As a clean and renewable energy source, wave energy is of great significance in solving primary energy shortages and environmental pollution. Direct-drive wave power systems consisting of linear generators have attracted the attention of researchers from...
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Andréia S. de Barros, Cristiano Fragassa, Maycon da S. Paiva, Luiz A. O. Rocha, Bianca N. Machado, Liércio A. Isoldi, Mateus das N. Gomes and Elizaldo D. dos Santos
Studies regarding renewable energy sources have gained attention over recent years. One example is wave energy converters, which harvest energy from sea waves using different operational principles such as oscillating water columns, oscillating bodies, a...
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Yanwei Li, Nianxin Ren, Xiang Li and Jinping Ou
A novel modular floating structure (MFS) system moored by tension legs was proposed, which is composed of hexagonal floating modules, floating artificial reefs and wave energy converters (WECs). The integration of floating artificial reefs and WECs into ...
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Sanghwan Heo, Weoncheol Koo and Moo-Hyun Kim
A Wavestar-type Wave Energy Converter (WEC) on an elastic foundation structure was investigated using an author-developed coupled dynamic analysis computer program. The program included an elastic foundation structure composed of beam elements, a multi-b...
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O. A. Azarova, T. A. Lapushkina, K. V. Krasnobaev and O. V. Kravchenko
The paper is devoted to the problem of the interaction between a shock wave and a thermally stratified energy source for the purpose of supersonic/hypersonic flow control realization. The effect of the thermally stratified energy source on a shock wave w...
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Constantine Michailides
For the analysis and design of coastal and offshore structures, viscous loads represent one of the most influential parameters that dominate their response. Very commonly, the potential flow theory is used for identifying the excitation wave loads, while...
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Pilar Heras, Sarah Thomas, Morten Kramer and Jens Peter Kofoed
Free-floating bodies are commonly modelled using Cummins? equation based on linear potential flow theory and including non-linear forces when necessary. In this paper, this methodology is applied to a body pitching around a fixed hinge (not free-floating...
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