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ANALYSIS OF LATERALLY LOADED RIGID MONOPILES
Session: Foundations V / Fondations V
Bipin Gupta, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Dipanjan Basu, University of Waterloo (Canada)
A continuum-based analysis for laterally loaded rigid monopiles supporting offshore wind turbines in multilayered elastic soil is presented. The principle of virtual work is used to derive the equilibrium equations maintaining appropriate force balance between the pile and soil. The equilibrium equations are solved using an iterative numerical scheme to obtain the pile and soil displacements. Pile responses obtained using this method match well with those of equivalent finite element analysis.
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