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Wind energy has become a pivotal component of sustainable power generation, with increasing demand for innovative and robust foundation designs for wind turbine generators (WTGs), particularly in soft soil conditions. Optimizing these foundations is crucial to ensuring stability, longevity, and cost-effectiveness. The use of stone column-improved soft soils has emerged as an effective solution in supporting these foundations, offering improved load-bearing capacities, minimized settlement, and enhanced rotational stiffness. This webinar will explore the geotechnical intricacies involved in wind turbine foundation design and demonstrate how PLAXIS 3D can be leveraged for advanced analysis and optimization.​

What you will learn: ​

  • Wind Turbine Foundation Design Path​
  • Geotechnical Design Parameters (Low & High Strain)​
  • Rotational Stiffness and Gapping Conditions​
  • Wind Turbine Foundation’s Effective Loading Area​
  • PLAXIS 3D Geometry of WTG Foundation with Stone Column, Total Deformation, Principal Stresses

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Webinar Presenters

Pankajkumar Yadav

Pankajkumar Yadav

Assistant Manager (Geotechnical Design)
L&T Construction

Pankajkumar Yadav is a geotechnical consulting professional with an M.Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering and a B.E. in Civil Engineering. He has extensive expertise in finite element method (FEM) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) for static and dynamic analysis. His experience spans geotechnical design for infrastructure, transportation, metro, and airport projects, as well as foundation design for wind turbine generators, solar plants, substations, transmission towers, and ground improvement techniques to enhance bearing capacity, reduce settlement, and mitigate liquefaction.

Rohan Rajendra Deshmukh

Dr. Rohan Deshmukh

Product Sales Engineer
Bentley Systems

Dr. Rohan is expert in Geotechnical engineering and geosynthetics. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and Master’s Degree in Geotechnical Engineering. He has done Ph.D. on the topic ‘Field and Numerical Evaluation of Geosynthetic Reinforced Flexible Pavement.’ He has awarded with 'iGrip-2023 Doctoral research award (Best Thesis Award)’ from IIT, Gandhinagar.​

He has presented and published papers in several international journals and conferences. He is also a Life Member of Indian Geotechnical Society and Indian Society of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling Technology.