[Env seminars] Fwd: Offshore Wind Turbines seminar Fri. 10/21/05

[Karen Gibson]

Thought this seminar might be of interest.


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>A new seminar from the Geotechnical & Geo-Environmental Seminar Series
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>"Novel Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines"
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>Prof. Guy T. Houlsby, Prof. of Civil Engineering, Oxford University
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>Friday October 21, 2005    4-5pm
>MIT room 3-270 
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>The pressures for the development of renewable energy resources come 
>from (a) climate change and (b) security of energy supply.  In the 
>UK the most promising option for renewable energy is the large scale 
>exploitation of offshore wind.
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>The talk will explore the motivation for the research and then move 
>on to the challenges that face geotechnical engineers in the 
>exploitation of offshore wind energy.  Novel "suction caisson" 
>foundations are one possible solution to meet the need for large 
>numbers of foundations at low installation cost. The results of a 
>recent industry/research council funded project will be outlined.
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>Bio:
>Guy Houlsby has been Professor of Civil Engineering at Oxford 
>University since 1991. He graduated in Engineering from Cambridge in 
>1975. His main work is in geotechnical engineering, where he has 
>considerable research experience on in situ testing, offshore 
>foundations and tunnelling.  He has a particular interest in use of 
>numerical and analytical methods in geotechnical engineering and has 
>published over 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings. 
>He has acted as a specialist consultant in civil and geotechnical 
>engineering on many projects, particularly in the offshore sector. 
>He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of  Engineering.
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>Refreshments will be served.
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>Flyer for the seminar is available from sfay at mit.edu
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