Method and system for forming a foundation pile section with a desired diameter and circumference, wherein the section has a circular cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said section, wherein a plate having a width direction and a length direction perpendicular to the width direction, is rolled in said length direction into a cylindrical or frusto-conical shape, such that opposite ends of said plate are brought in an adjacent position, wherein during and/or directly after rolling a circumference and/or diameter cq radius of the rolled plate are assessed, whereby an edge portion of the plate at at least one of said adjacent opposite ends is removed, where after said then adjacent opposite ends are brought together and welded together
B21C 37/08 - Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
B21C 51/00 - Measuring, gauging, indicating, counting, or marking devices specially adapted for use in the production or manipulation of material in accordance with subclasses
B21D 5/14 - Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves by passing between rollers
B21D 5/00 - Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
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METHOD AND STRUCTURES FOR USE IN MOUNTING A SUPER STRUCTURE ON A FOUNDATION PILE
Method for mounting a super structure over a top end of a foundation pile, wherein the top end has a truncated conical shape and the super structure has an opening fitting over said top end, which opening preferably has a truncated conical peripheral surface fitting over said top end, wherein a guide structure is placed at said top end, comprising at least one sloping guide surface, where after said super structure is lowered over the guide structure onto the top end of the foundation pile.
Method for forming a section for a floating body for an offshore floating foundation, comprising providing a metal sheet having a sheet length direction and a sheet width direction, and bending said sheet, such that the sheet is curved in the sheet length direction, forming a concave side. Furthermore a stiffener is formed, having a stiffener length direction, wherein the stiffener is curved in said stiffener length direction, forming a convex side. Said curved stiffener is placed with the convex side against the concave side of the sheet and is pushed against the concave side of the sheet, such that a curvature of the concave side of the sheet matches a curvature of the convex side of the stiffener at least at the position where the stiffener is placed. Then the stiffener is welded against the sheet.
B23K 37/02 - Carriages for supporting the welding or cutting element
B23K 37/053 - Auxiliary devices or processes, not specially adapted for a procedure covered by only one of the other main groups of this subclass for holding or positioning work aligning cylindrical workClamping devices therefor
B63B 75/00 - Building or assembling floating offshore structures, e.g. semi-submersible platforms, SPAR platforms or wind turbine platforms
F03D 13/25 - Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motorsMasts or towers for wind motors specially adapted for offshore installation
B21C 37/08 - Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
B23P 23/06 - Metal-working plant comprising a number of associated machines or apparatus
B23P 15/00 - Making specific metal objects by operations not covered by a single other subclass or a group in this subclass
B21D 51/04 - Making hollow objects characterised by the structure of the objects built-up objects, e.g. objects with rigidly-attached bottom or cover
B23K 9/028 - Seam weldingBacking meansInserts for curved planar seams
B23K 26/06 - Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K 26/242 - Fillet welding, i.e. involving a weld of substantially triangular cross section joining two parts
B23K 26/282 - Seam welding of curved planar seams of tube sections
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING AN OFF-SHORE FOUNDATION PILE FROM A LOCATION
The invention relates to a method for removing an off-shore foundation pile from a use position in which a lower part of the off-shore foundation pile has been driven into a ground, such that a longitudinal axis of the off-shore foundation pile extends upward, wherein the off-shore foundation pile is rotated around said longitudinal axis, prior to and/or during lifting of the off-shore foundation pile from the ground.
Slip-joint between a platform (3) and a pile (2), wherein the pile has a first surface area at or near a top end of the pile and the platform has an opening defined at least partly by a second surface area, wherein in the slip joint between the first surface area and the second surface area at least one pad (9) is provided, made at least partly of a flexible material, wherein the at least one pad has a primary surface (33) facing one of the first surface area (6) and the second surface area (7) and an opposite secondary surface (34) facing the other of the first surface area (6) and the second surface area (7), wherein at least the primary surface has a surface profiling (100) allowing compression of part of said profiling
E02B 17/00 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor
E02B 17/02 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
E02B 17/04 - Equipment specially adapted for raising, lowering, or immobilising the working platform relative to the supporting construction
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Monopile coating process, monopile and monopile coating system
A monopile coating process, comprising: placing a monopile on roller supports, wherein the roller supports are provided with rotating means for rotating the monopile when the monopile is placed on the roller supports, and wherein the rollers are supporting the monopile and are located at one or more positions along the axis of the monopile when the monopile is placed on the roller supports, applying a thermally sprayed metallic coating, such as an aluminium or zinc-aluminium coating, to parts of the circumferential external surface of the monopile corresponding to the one or more positions, and, compressing at least part of the thermally sprayed metallic coating by rotating the monopile using the roller supports is disclosed. A monopile and a monopile coating system are also disclosed.
C23C 4/08 - Metallic material containing only metal elements
C23C 4/02 - Pretreatment of the material to be coated, e.g. for coating on selected surface areas
C23C 4/12 - Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge characterised by the method of spraying
Method for forming tubular segments, wherein a metal strip is or a series of metal strips is pressed into a tubular or truncated conical shape, such that opposite longitudinal ends of the strip or strips meet, forming at least one seam, where after the seam is welded, joining the meeting ends together, wherein at least after welding the cross sectional profile of at least part of the segment is measured, at least at and/or near said welded seam or seams, and data of said measurement is fed into a control unit, where after a press is operated by the control unit based on said data, adjusting the cross sectional profile of the segment, at least at the or each seam.
Method for fitting a platform on an upper end of a foundation pile, wherein said upper end has a truncated conical outer surface, and wherein the platform has an opening fitting over said upper end of the pile. The opening is provided with a peripheral wall defining a truncated conical shape. Between the outer surface of the pile and the wall of the opening a series of filling elements is provided. Filling elements are positioned spaced apart from each other, such that between adjacent filling elements channels are formed. The disclosure further relates to an assembly of a foundation pile and a platform, wherein spaced apart filling elements are provided between facing surface portions of the pile and the platform, defining channels there between.
E02B 17/00 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor
E02B 17/02 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
E02B 17/04 - Equipment specially adapted for raising, lowering, or immobilising the working platform relative to the supporting construction
Method for mounting a super structure over a top end of a foundation pile, wherein the top end has a truncated conical shape and the super structure has an opening fitting over said top end, which opening preferably has a truncated conical peripheral surface fitting over said top end, wherein a guide structure is placed at said top end, comprising at least one sloping guide surface, where after said super structure is lowered over the guide structure onto the top end of the foundation pile.
Method for fitting a platform on an upper end of a foundation pile, wherein said upper end has a truncated conical outer surface, and wherein the platform has an opening fitting over said upper end of the pile, said opening provided with a peripheral wall defining a truncated conical shape, wherein between the truncated conical outer surface of the pile and the peripheral wall of the opening at least one filling element is positioned, wherein prior to fitting the platform over the pile a first scan is made of at least a portion of the truncated outer surface of the pile and a second scan is made of at least a portion of the peripheral wall of the opening, wherein the shape of the at least one filling element is formed and/or amended based on said first scan and second scan.
E02B 17/00 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor
E02B 17/02 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
E04H 12/08 - Structures made of specified materials of metal
E04H 12/34 - Arrangements for erecting or lowering towers, masts, poles, chimney stacks, or the like
G01S 17/89 - Lidar systems, specially adapted for specific applications for mapping or imaging
E02B 17/04 - Equipment specially adapted for raising, lowering, or immobilising the working platform relative to the supporting construction
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METHOD AND CONNECTING RING FOR MOUNTING A TOWER TO A FOUNDATION PILE, AND A WIND TURBINE GENERATOR
Method for mounting a tower for a wind turbine generator to a foundation pile, wherein the tower is provided with a metal connecting ring at a lower end and is positioned on an upper end of the foundation pile, where after: - the metal connecting ring is welded to the upper end of the foundation pile from one of an outer side of the foundation pile or an inner side of the foundation pile, forming a first peripheral weld at a first level; - a groove is formed at the level of the weld from the other one of the inner side of the foundation pile or the outer side of the foundation pile; and - a second peripheral weld is formed in said groove. or wherein the foundation pile is provided with a metal connecting ring at an upper end and the tower is positioned on an upper end of the foundation pile, where after: - the metal connecting ring is welded to the lower end of the tower from one of an outer side of the tower or an inner side of the tower, forming a first peripheral weld at a first level; - a groove is formed at the level of the weld from the other one of the inner side of the tower or the outer side of the tower; and - a second peripheral weld is formed in said groove.
A monopile coating process, comprising: placing a monopile on roller supports, wherein the roller supports are provided with rotating means for rotating the monopile when the monopile is placed on the roller supports, and wherein the rollers are supporting the monopile and are located at one or more positions along the axis of the monopile when the monopile is placed on the roller supports, applying a thermally sprayed metallic coating, such as an aluminium or zinc-aluminium coating, to parts of the circumferential external surface of the monopile corresponding to the one or more positions, and, compressing at least part of the thermally sprayed metallic coating by rotating the monopile using the roller supports is disclosed. A monopile and a monopile coating system are also disclosed.
B05B 7/00 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
B05B 7/20 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas incorporating means for heating the material to be sprayed by flame or combustion
B05B 7/22 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas incorporating means for heating the material to be sprayed electrically, e.g. by arc
F03D 13/00 - Assembly, mounting or commissioning of wind motorsArrangements specially adapted for transporting wind motor components
Method for forming tubular segments, wherein a metal strip is or a series of metal strips is pressed into a tubular or truncated conical shape, such that opposite longitudinal ends of the strip or strips meet, forming at least one seam, where after the seam is welded, joining the meeting ends together, wherein at least after welding the cross sectional profile of at least part of the segment is measured, at least at and/or near said welded seam or seams, and data of said measurement is fed into a control unit, where after a press is operated by the control unit based on said data, adjusting the cross sectional profile of the segment, at least at the or each seam.
B21D 3/10 - Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts between rams and anvils or abutments
An offshore structure that includes a pile of a foundation and at least one offshore element mounted on the pile and forming a slip joint, wherein disposed between an inner surface of the offshore element and an outer surface of the pile is a coating, especially an anti-fouling coating, for increasing friction between the two surfaces and/or preventing corrosion of one or both of the surfaces and/or at least two spaced apart areas are provided with a substance, forming a seal between the outer surface and the inner surface, near an upper end of the pile and the off shore element and between a lower end of the off shore element and the pile.
F03D 13/25 - Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motorsMasts or towers for wind motors specially adapted for offshore installation
E02B 17/00 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor
E02B 17/02 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
Offshore structure comprising a pile of a foundation and at least one offshore element, mounted on the pile, forming a slip joint, wherein between an inner surface of the offshore element and an outer surface of the pile: - a coating, especially an anti-fouling coating is provided, increasing friction between the said two surfaces and/or preventing corrosion of one or both of said surfaces and/or -at least two spaced apart areas are provided with a substance, forming a seal between the said outer surface and the said inner surface, near an upper end of the pile and the off shore element and between a lower end of the off shore element and the pile.
E02B 17/00 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor
E02B 17/02 - Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legsConstruction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
