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Foundations of Wind Turbines

  • Installation of Suction Buckets
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Christian Schröder
    Year: 2016
    Funding: BMWi / PtJ
  • The Behavior of Monopile Foundation in Sandy Seabed under Horizontal Cyclic Loading
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dr.-Ing M.Sc. Yu-Shu Kuo, Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Albiker
    Year: 2016
    Duration: 2007 – 2016
  • Monitoring Suction Bucket Jacket
    Led by: Prof. Dr-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Tim Gerlach, M.Sc. Jann-Eike Saathoff. Dipl.-Ing. Christian Schröder, Dr.-Ing. Klaus Thieken
    Year: 2017
    Funding: BMWi / PtJ
    Duration: 01.08.2014 - 31.07.2017
  • Degradation of the Pile Load-Bearing Behaviour under Cyclic Axial Loading
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Schäfer, Dr.-Ing. Khalid Abdel-Rahman
    Year: 2017
    Funding: BMWi
    Duration: 02/2013 – 07/2017
  • Tensile Behaviour of Suction Buckets in Non-Cohesive Soils
    Led by: Prof. Dr-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Patrick Gütz
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2018
  • Probabilistic Design of Offshore Foundation Piles – IRP-WIND
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Kirill Schmoor
    Year: 2018
    Funding: 13 EU organisations
    Duration: 03/2014 – 02/2018
  • Collaborative Project SEALENCE: Development of an Ecologically and Economically Optimised Foundation System for Offshore Wind Turbines
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Dennis Frick, M.Sc. Jann-Eike Saathoff
    Year: 2019
    Funding: BMWi / PtJ
    Duration: 31.10.2015 – 31.01.2019
  • Ground-Structure Interaction of Onshore Wind Turbines – Measurement and Evaluation (DFWind)
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Khalid Abdel-Rahman, M.Sc. Oxana Bagusche, Dr.-Ing. F. tom Wörden
    Year: 2019
    Funding: Deutsche Forschungsplattform für Windenergie (DFWind, German Research Facility for Wind Energy)
    Duration: 2015 – 2023
  • ventus efficiens – Collaborative Research to Increase the Efficiency of Wind Turbines in the Energy System
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Mauricio Terceros, Dr.-Ing. Klaus Thieken
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK, Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony)
    Duration: 01.12.2014 – 30.06.2020
  • HyTowering – Optimisation of the Design of Hybrid Towers and Development of a Suitable Monitoring Concept
    Led by: Prof. Dr-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Khalid Abdel-Rahman, M.Sc. Shuhan Cao, Dr.-Ing. Florian tom Wörden
    Year: 2020
    Funding: BMWi / PTJ
    Duration: 01.01.2018 – 31.12.2020
  • Accumulation of Lateral Deformation of Piles under General Cyclic Swelling and Alternating Loads (Part 1&2)
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Dennis Frick
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 01.04.2018 – 31.07.2023
  • Ho-Pile – Cyclic Extension and Experimental Validation of a p-y Approach for Sand for Safe Monopile Dimensioning
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Khalid Abdel-Rahman, M.Sc. Junnan Song, Dr.-Ing. Florian tom Wörden
    Year: 2021
    Funding: BMWi / PtJ
    Duration: 01.12.2018 – 30.11.2021
  • SFB "Offshore-Megastructures"
    Led by: Prof. M. Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Norman Goldau, M.Sc. Jann-Eike Saathoff
    Year: 2021
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2024
  • DFWind
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: B.Sc. Maria Müller, M.Sc. Junnan Song
    Year: 2023
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
    Duration: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2023
  • ProBucket – Bucket Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Jann-Eike Saathoff, M.Sc. Immo Sanders, Dr.-Ing. Florian tom Wörden
    Year: 2023
    Funding: BMWi / Projektträger Jülich (PtJ, Project Management Jülich)
    Duration: 01.09.2020 – 31.08.2023
  • Capacity Degradation of Cyclic Axially Loaded Piles in Sand
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: M.Sc. Dennis Hansmann
    Year: 2024
    Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
    Duration: 01.04.2024 – 30.09.2026

Dimensioning of Rock Salt Caverns

  • RiSa: Expansion of Thermally Induced and Pressure-Driven Cracks in Salt Rock
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Zapf
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Bastian Leuger
    Year: 2020
    Funding: BMWi / PTJ
    Duration: 01.08.2015 - 31.01.2020
  • La-thi-ga: Laboratory Tests of Thermally-Induced and Gas-Pressure-Driven Cracking in Salt Rock
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Zapf
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Bastian Leuger, M.Sc. Lenart Siemann
    Year: 2020
    Funding: BMWi / PTJ
    Duration: 01.06.2017 - 31.12.2020
  • WEIMOS: Further Development and Qualification of Rock Mechanical Modelling for HAW Disposal in Rock Salt
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Zapf
    Team: Dr.-Ing. Savas Yildirim
    Year: 2021
    Funding: BMWi
    Duration: 01.04.2016 – 30.09.2021
  • LARISSA: Laboratory Tests and Numerical Calculations on Crack Propagation in Salt Rock
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Zapf
    Team: M.Sc. Lukas Baumgärtel, M.Sc. Feline Körner, Dipl-Ing. Bastian Leuger
    Year: 2023
    Funding: BMWi / PtJ
    Duration: 01.01.2021 - 30.06.2024

District Heating Pipes

  • Technical Durability Analysis of District Heating Networks
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Tim Gerlach
    Year: 2018
    Funding: BMWi
    Duration: 10/2015 – 09/2018
  • Numerical Heat Field Calculation of Twin Pipe Systems
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Mandy Narten, Dipl.-Ing. Oxana Bagusche
    Year: 2019
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)
    Duration: 2016 – 2019

Other

  • Effect of Grain Size Distribution and Compactness of Sands on Retrogressive Erosion
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Schäfer
    Year: 2012
    Funding: Niedersächsische Technische Hochschule (NTH, Lower Saxony Institutes of Technology)
    Duration: 07/2010 – 12/2012
  • Calibration Tests on Liquid Soil
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Team: Dipl.-Ing. Mandy Narten, Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Wilmsmeier
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Forschungsgemeinschaft Transportbeton e.V. (FTB)
    Duration: 2016 - 2017
  • Longitudinal Joints of Wooden Poles and Displacement Piles
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Achmus
    Team: B. Sc. Maria Müller, M.Sc. Junnan Song
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture)
    Duration: 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2024

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