One of the main structural components of offshore wind turbines is the substructure which bridges the gap between seabed and tower foot. One possible concept employed in intermediate water depths for turbines with high-rated ...

In multi-body systems, flexible components as well as couplings between them can be subject to large displacements and rotations. This contribution presents a general objective and geometrically exact node-to-node coupling ...

This work proposes and investigates a new model of the rotating rigid body based on the non-twisting frame. Such a frame consists of three mutually orthogonal unit vectors whose rotation rate around one of the three axis ...