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Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Modular jacket offshore wind turbine support structure for the Northern Portuguese coastal zone”, Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C., (Ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 655-663

The Portuguese coastal zone is very resourceful in terms of the wind energy, but the water may get deeper even for the sites close to the onshore, which makes it necessary to find an adaptable support structure solution for the varied water depths. The present work aims to design a modular jacket offshore wind turbine support structure to be adapted for the water depths of 40, 60 and 80 m. In a benchmark study, a vast number of different jacket support structure configurations are analysed for the 40 m water depth and later on are evaluated in terms of the dynamic compatibility, structural capacity and fabrication cost in order to acquire the most suitable jacket structural configuration. The chosen configuration is taken as a reference structure to be adapted for the deeper waters such as 60 m and 80 m by using a modular design concept, which involves mounting an extra module to the support structure and changing the leg slope.

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