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Beridi Launches New Testing Campaign at IHCantabria Wave Tank

Beridi has initiated a new testing campaign at the IHCantabria wave tank. This study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the latest improvements implemented in our floating foundation technology for offshore wind. Throughout July, extensive tests will be conducted, simulating demanding wave, wind, and current...

Beridi to Demonstrate World’s First Compatibility Between Floating Wind Design and Slipforming Method in 2025

Detailed Engineering of the Triwind Demonstrator completed

The detailed engineering of the TRIWIND 1,5MW platform, which will validate the technology at full scale, has been completed.The design of the TRIWIND platform, which excels for its low cost, its simplicity,  its ease of construction, and its outstanding naval behavior is culminated with the...

Completion of tests in the Large Tank for Maritime Engineering of Cantabria

Beridi has successfully completed the tests in the Large Tank for Maritime Engineering of Cantabria (CCOB – Cantabria Coastal and Ocean Basin), thus fulfilling another key milestone of the ARCHIME3 project. After the success of the previous validation stages, these tests had the objective of...

Completion of model tests in the ETSI Caminos, Canales y Puertos wave tank

The ARCHIME3 project successfully completed its first stage of tests, in the wave tank of the Enviroment, Coast and Ocean Research Laboratory (ECOREL-UPM). The teaching and research group of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, led by Professor Vicente Negro Valdecantos, has carried out a complete...

CFD modelling

CFD modelling First tests of the platform using CFD models to obtain performance parameters such as viscous damping and added mass....

Laboratory campaign for platform optimization

Laboratory campaign for platform optimization New physical model testing campaign in the ECOREL UPM tank (Madrid), for the study of new configuration alternatives and optimization of hydrodynamic behavior parameters....

Numerical Modeling

Numerical modeling of the hydrodynamic behavior of the platform from the laboratory data obtained in the tests (IHCantabria) CFD modeling for the determination of extreme loads in Ultimate Limit State.Study of wave-structure interaction, both in its two-dimensional version, IH-2VOF, and in the three-dimensional model IH-3VOF. ...

Test campaign at 1:50 scale of the triangular platform

Test campaign at 1:50 scale of the triangular platform for 10 Mw turbines in the tank of the ECOREL-UPM laboratory of the School of Roads, Canals and Ports of Madrid The objective of the tests is the determination of the forces, pressures and moments acting on...