Floating platform concepts offer the prospect of harvesting offshore wind energy at deep water locations for countries with a limited number of suitable shallow water locations for bottom-mounted offshore wind turbines. The floating spar-buoy concept has shown promising experimental and theoretical results. Although various codes for a detailed simulation exist the purpose of this work is to el...

Purpose The aim of this study was to describe different designs of semimonolithic crowns made of translucent and high-translucent zirconia materials and to evaluate the effect on fracture resistance and fracture mode. Methods One hundred crowns with different designs were produced and divided into five groups (n=20): monolithic (M), partially veneered monolithic (semimonolithic) with 0.3 mm b...

Most studies on wave-in-deck loads focus head-on wave impingement whereas due to waves incident from oblique directions are rarely reported. Numerical simulations for were presented in Iwanowski et al. (2002), Brodtkorb (2008) and Chen (2018). However, these studies, only numerical validations performed against either two-dimensional experiments or empirical formulations a lack of experimental ...