EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE GROUTED CONNECTION OF A MONOPILE OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE

Abstract

The authors have proposed a stress prediction formula for a grouted connection of an offshore wind turbine without shear keys by considering equilibrium between bending moment and shear force and showed its validation by the finite element analyses in a previously issued paper. In this paper, a scaled model test which models the grouted connection is discussed. It is shown that the proposed stress formula is consistent with the experimental results and that the failure.