Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    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.)