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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...

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...

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...

ARCHIME3 Kick-off meeting for Phase 1 Presentation and common review of the different tasks to be carried out and the objectives to be achieved within the first stage of the project. The companies participating in the meeting were: ECOREL UPM and IH Cantabria, responsible for the...

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 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 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 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...

Stress analysis on the structure and dimensioning of the reinforcement for the 10 Mw turbine Estimation of the maximum values of the moments and stresses on the structure to dimension the amounts of reinforcement. Definition of the final geometry of the structure to undertake these efforts....

Study of the mooring system from a coupled analysis of the platform using Orcaflex Studies and definition of installation of anchors and lines (Salt Technologies) Combinations of loads based on existing regulations...