Vol. 52 No. 1 (2015)   New Products & Technologies
Technical Papers

Evaluation of Design Loads and Instability of a 7MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

AKIHIRO NAKAMURA
YOSHIYUKI HAYASHI
TAKATOSHI MATSUSHITA
KAI KARIKOMI
AKIHIRO HONDA
MAKOTO OHTA

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) offer the potential for development because they can generate electric power in offshore areas with water depths of more than 50 m, where conventional bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines are difficult to be install
(This article is written in Japanese and only the abstract is written in English.)