Program & Presentations

Under the tentative heading of "Buckling of Offshore Wind Structures" we are bringing together experts and have contributions on 

  1. Pile Tip Buckling  
  2. Buckling of embedded structures like monopiles and suction buckets, and
  3. Buckling of tower-like structures, specifically addressing current developments within the European standard 1993-1-6 and its application.  

Confirmed speakers so far are

Day #1 - 14th February start 09:30 (Registration from 09:00)

  • Dr. Adam Jan Sadowski, Imperial College
  • Dr. Marc Seidel, Siemens Gamesa
  • Dr. Peter Knoedel, Dr. Knoedel Engineering Consultants
  • Lijithan Kathirkamanathan, Imperial College
  • Dr. Claas Fischer, TÜV Nord EnSys
  • Dr. Falk Lüddecke, Jörss – Blunck – Ordemann GmbH
  • Chris Pilbin, Ramboll
  • Hagen Balscheit, BAM
  • Victor Widerspan, Fraunhofer IWES

Day #2 - 15th February end 16:45

  • Prof. Mark Randolph, UWA Perth
  • Dr. Matthias Baeßler, BAM
  • Prof. Frank Rackwitz, TU Berlin
  • Albrecht Victor, Jörss – Blunck – Ordemann GmbH
  • David Cathie PhD, Orestis Zarzouras, Cathie Associates
  • Arjen Kort, NGI
  • Orestis Zinas, BAM

And a panel discussion on pile tip buckling with

  • Prof. Christian Moormann, Stuttgart
  • Dr. Michael Hauschildt, DNV
  • Arnaud Gerthoffert, Bureau Veritas
  • Per Sparrevik, NGI
  • James Sinfield, Christina Starost, Carbon Trust

You can download the current program using the link below:

Program Colloquium "Buckling of Offshore Wind Energy Structures"

Dinner/Get Together

takes place in the city center near the Museum Island in the newly opened Dieselhaus (https://dieselhaus-berlin.de/)

Forum an der Museumsinsel 10
10117 Berlin

Unfortunately, it must also be mentioned that the direct connection from the center to BAM (metro S1) is currently interrupted at Friedrichstrasse due to construction work until shortly after the colloquium and must be bypassed. Please check out for https://www.bvg.de/en/connections/connection-search.