Engineering Innovation in Offshore Wind
The Floating Wind Technology Company (FWTC) engineers floating offshore wind solutions, specializing in coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic analyses, floating substructure design, mooring systems, and novel anchoring technologies. Its principals pioneered the SpiderFLOAT floating substructure and hold patents on an innovative concrete suction anchor designed to cut anchoring CapEx by 80% for offshore wind developers.
Rick DamianiPrincipal & CEO
Max FranchiPrincipal Engineer
Dean DavisPrincipal Engineer
Wind · Marine · Renewable Energy
Wind · 2022 · Client: NREL / ARPA-E
Structural optimization and aero-hydro-servo-elastic analysis of the SpiderFLOAT floating substructure under ARPA-E's ATLANTIS program. FWTC collaborated with NREL, Colorado School of Mines, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Virginia, and the American Bureau of Shipping on control-co-design techniques to minimize costs in offshore wind floating substructure design.
Scotland · Wind · 2021 · Client: Carbon Trust / Scottish Government Floating Wind JIP
Design of a cost-disruptive concrete suction anchor for floating offshore wind turbines, incorporating novel 3D printing fabrication techniques. Selected as a winner of the Scottish Government and Carbon Trust Floating Wind JIP technology acceleration competition. Ramboll and Cathie supported design basis, load assessments, and steel anchor reference designs.
Wind · 2022 · Client: Beridi Maritime
Engineering support for Beridi Maritime's hybrid floating wind concept, covering control design, fully-coupled loads analyses, ultimate and fatigue limit state design of the tower and tower-floater interface, and structural design of the tower-Archime3 connection and floater.
Wind · Client: RCAM Technologies
Aero-hydro-servo-elastic modeling and load assessment for an additive-manufactured concrete substructure supporting a 15-MW offshore wind turbine. Computed SLS and ULS loads with detailed load extrapolations at probabilities of 10^-2, 10^-4, and 3.8e-7 per DNVGL-ST-0437 for a fixed-bottom suction-bucket support structure.