Offshore wind on cold seas
Workshop description
Topic: arctic technology and ice mechanics
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
In this workshop, you will conduct material tests on ice to understand how ice breaks when it impacts different structure types. You will also see how various offshore wind turbine structures break ice in model-scale tests.
There is a strong drive towards green energy. The European Union aims to boost offshore wind energy production from the current 12 GW to 300 GW by 2050. The sea areas around Finland have great potential for wind energy, but their annual ice cover poses a challenge to structural safety, which largely prevents this potential from being utilized.
In this workshop, you will compare ice load levels for two different structure types and learn how to avoid large ice-induced loads.
Hosts: Arttu Polojärvi and TBA
Location: Aalto Ice and Wave Tank
Time: 12:55-14:25 (first group) and 14:50-16:20 (second group)
Number of participants: 20/group.