 | Anastasios Sextos |
EXCHANGE-Wind – “Experimental & Computational Hybrid Assessment for Resilient, New Generation Floating Wind Farms” is a new project funded by the European Commission under the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Staff Exchanges (HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2025). This international network spans across universities and industry partners from Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania with the aim to advance the resilience and risk-informed design of floating offshore wind farms operating under complex multi-hazard environments.
EXCHANGE-Wind will develop a rigorous hybrid experimental–computational framework for floating offshore wind turbines, that are simultaneously exposed to wind, waves, seismic loading, seabed interaction and long-term fatigue, in a coupled structural, geotechnical and hydrodynamic domain. The project combines large-scale physical experiments (including shaking tables, wave tanks and soil–structure interaction facilities) with hybrid simulation, advanced numerical modelling and monitoring data from operating wind farms. By integrating structural health monitoring, machine learning tools and probabilistic multi-hazard risk assessment, assessment will move from component-based checks to system-level resilience evaluation of entire floating wind farms, supporting faster inspection, smarter decision-making and reduced downtime after extreme events.
The network is coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens and brings together the University of Bristol, University of Patras, Kiel University, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Universität Rostock, DTU – Technical University of Denmark, University of Thessaly, VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT GmbH, EDF, Geoquip Marine, Senso Engineering, RED Risk Engineering + Development along with key non-EU partners University of Toronto, UCLA, University of Auckland, Seoul National University.
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University of Bristol Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, NTUA, European Commission, European Research Executive Agency (REA)
Anastasios Sextos, Stathis BOUSIAS, Oh-Sung Kwon, Frank Wuttke, Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Peter Furtner, Flavia De Luca, Spyros A. Karamanos, İhsan Engin Bal, Eleni Smyrou, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Volkmar Zabel, Hamid Sadegh-Azar, Evangelos Katsanos, Christophe Peyrard, Paolo Bazzurro, Nawawi Chouw, Chris Brandish-Lowe, Junho Song