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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF OFFSHORE FLOATING WIND TURBINES
Hasan Bagbanci
Dissertation for the Degree of Master of

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Jury
President: Supervisor: Co-supervisor: Member: Prof. Yordan Garbatov Prof. Carlos António Pancada Guedes Soares Dr. Debabrata Karmakar Prof. Serge Sutulo

December 2011

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DEDICATION ______________________________________________________________

Dedicated to Teresa Leonor Lopes Miranda

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ______________________________________________________________

I express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my supervisor Professor Carlos Guedes Soares for his guidance, support and help during the tenure of the present research work. I am highly indebted to Professor Carlos Guedes Soares who has taken keen interest and offered valuable suggestions on the research work. I feel proud and honored to be a student of such a personality. I sincerely appreciate and thank Dr Debabrata Karmakar for his co-operation and help right from the inception of the problem to the final preparation of the manuscript. Thanks are also to the all the faculty members of the CENTEC for their technical suggestions at various times. My thanks are also to my colleagues and other labmates for their active cooperation with whom I shared so many nice moments together. Lastly, I extend my sincerest gratitude to my parents and brothers for always standing by me and supporting me at this endeavor.

Hasan Bagbanci

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ABSTRACT ______________________________________________________________

A detailed study on offshore floating wind turbines and the working principle of various floater concepts and the conceptual designs for floating platforms used for floating wind turbines are presented. In the case of fixed wind