POSEIDON
DAMAGE PREDICTION AND DESIGN OF SCOUR PROTECTIONS IN COMPLEX FOUNDATIONS FOR MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY
About
POSEIDON acts on 3 main scientific contributions:
- Extend and validate dynamic scour protections to a wide variety of MRE technologies, as wave, tidal and offshore wind;
- Develop a design methodology that enhances their application by the MRE stakeholders;
- Improve the concept’s cost-benefit ratio in comparison to conventional protections.
These contributions are aligned with two strategic ground-breaking needs:
- Promote lower LCoEs to increase the competitiveness of MRE;
- Enhance the energy mix transition towards the long-term sustainability of Society and Environment.
SCIENTIFIC Team
Francisco Taveira Pinto
CO-PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
Full Professor and Director of Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Principal researcher at CIIMAR and coordinator of Marine Energy group.
Paulo Rosa Santos
RESEARCHER
Associate Professor with Aggregation of Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Principal researcher at CIIMAR and co-coordinator of Marine Energy group.
Tiago Ferradosa
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Researcher at CIIMAR and leader of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
Ana Margarida Bento
RESEARCHER
Post-doctorate researcher at FEUP - CIIMAR, and co-coordinator of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
Rui Figueiredo
RESEARCHER
Post-doctorate external researcher at FEUP - CIIMAR, and member of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
João Chambel
RESEARCHER
PhD fellow at FEUP, and member of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
Filipe Miranda
RESEARCHER
Researcher fellow at FEUP, and member of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
Navid Eshaghi
RESEARCHER
PhD fellow at FEUP, and member of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group.
WORKING PLAN
Task 1 - Improvement of damage number analysis
Extend the damage number analysis to new testing conditions to improve the understanding of the damage number behaviour.
Task 2 - Evaluation of damage number in complex foundations
Provide a wide data-base of physical modelling results concerning the damage number analysis in complex foundations.
Task 3 - Numerical modelling of dynamic scour protections
Provide a wide data-base of numerical modelling results concerning the damage analysis in complex foundations.
Task 4 - Development of a design methodology for dynamic scour protections
Provide a design methodology for dynamic scour protections applicable to both monopiles and complex foundations, which is currently not available in technical literature for offshore engineering.
Task 5 - Economical viability and open access benchmark data set
Provide an open access benchmark data set that includes the information from previous tasks 1, 2, 3 and 4, and adds up the detailed reporting of an economical analysis of cost-benefits of dynamic scour protections for cases reported in scientific literature.
FUNDING & INSTITUTIONS
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Contact
- s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto
- Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
- Seg-Sex - 09:00 às 18:00
