This is a report about engineering challenges for floating offshore wind turbines. The vision for large-scale offshore floating wind turbines was introduced in 1972, current fixed-bottom technology has seen limited deployment to water depths of 20 meter. This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government.

In this report you can find the strategy for economic floating wind turbines, floating platforms for wind turbines must be optimized to get the lowest cycle cost of the entire system. Next, you can see the desirable features of a floating wind turbine platform and the floating platform classification, learn about the Ballast, Mooring lines, and the Bouyancy. Next you can see the design challenges, see the design challenge tradeoffs for stability criteria. See also the rational for platform design challenge ratings, see the design tools and methods, the Bouyancy tank cost/complexity, the Mooring line system cost/complexity, anchor cost/complexity, and the float out cost/complexity and weather window tolerance. See also the onsite installation simplicity, decommissioning and maintainability, corrosion and ice resistance, water depth independence, sensitivity to bottom soil conditions, minimum footprint, and the wave sensitivity.

Learn also about the impact of stability class on turbine design ratings, learn about turbine weight, tower top option, controls complexity, and maximum healing angle. See also the analytical tool development and the conclusions.

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