Journal Publications

Date Author(s) Title Publication
Materials and Structural Integrity
May 2022 Dingkun Pi, Anna Ermakova, Ali Mehmanparast Numerical Analysis of Surface Rolling Effects on Fatigue Life Enhancement of Wire Arc Additively Manufactured Parts World Scientific, Journal of Multiscale Modelling, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1142/S175697372146001X
October 2021 Anna Ermakova, Supriyo Ganguly, Javad Razavi, Filippo Berto and Ali Mehmanparast Experimental investigation of the fatigue crack growth behavior in wire arc additively manufactured ER100S-1 steel specimens Wiley Online Library, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials Structures, October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/ffe.13598
September 2021 Kingsley Sunday, Feargal Brennan A review of offshore wind monopiles structural design achievements and challenges Science Direct, Ocean Engineering, Volume 235, September 2021, 109409.
August 2021 J Taylor, A Mehmanparast, R Kulka, P Moore, G Hossein Farrahi Compact crack arrest testing and analysis of EH47 shipbuilding steel Science Direct, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Volume 114, August 2021, 103004.
July 2021 Satya Anandavijayan, Ali Mehmanparast, Feargal Brennan, Amir Chahardehi Material pre-straining effects on fracture toughness variation in offshore wind turbine foundations Science Direct, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 252, July 2021, 107844.
May 2021 Anna Ermakova, Ali Mehmanparast, Supriyo Ganguly, Javad Razavi, and Filippo Berto Fatigue crack growth behaviour of wire and arc additively manufactured ER70S-6 low carbon steel components International Journal of Fracture, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-021-00545-8
April 2021 M Leimeister, A Kolios Reliability-based design optimization of a spar-type floating offshore wind turbine support structure Science Direct, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021, 107666.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.107666
March 2021 Benjamin Pakenham, Anna Ermakova and Ali Mehmanparast A Review of Life Extension Strategies for Offshore Wind Farms Using Techno-Economic Assessments Energies 2021, 14, 1936. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14071936
March 2021 Innes Murdo Black, Mark Richmond, and Athanasios Kolios Condition monitoring systems: a systematic literature review on machine-learning methods improving offshore-wind turbine operational management International Journal of Sustainable Energy, DOI: 10.1080/14786451.2021.1890736
March 2021 Wai Jun Lai, Supriyo Ganguly, and Wojciech Suder Study of the effect of inter-pass temperature on weld overlap start-stop defects and mitigation by application of laser defocusing The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2021).
December 2020 Taylor J., Mehmanparast, A., Kulka, R., Moore, P., Xu, L., Hossein Farrahi, G. Experimental study of the relationship between fracture initiation toughness and brittle crack arrest toughness predicted from small-scale testing Science Direct, Volume 110, 102799.
October 2020 Ermakova. A, Mehmanparast .A, Ganguly .S Investigation of mechanical and fracture properties of wire and arc additively manufactured low carbon steel components Science Direct, Volume 109, 102685.
October 2020 Wai Jun Lai, Supriyo Ganguly, and Wojciech Suder Study on effect of laser keyhole weld termination regimes and material composition on weld overlap start-stop defects Science Direct, Volume 58, Pages 416 – 428.
May 2020 Igwemezie, V. and Mehmanparast, A. Waveform and frequency effects on corrosion-fatigue crack growth behaviour in modern marine steels International Journal of Fatigue, 134, p.105484.
January 2020 Dirisu, P., Supriyo, G., Martina, F., Xu, X. and Williams, S. Wire plus arc additive manufactured functional steel surfaces enhanced by rolling International Journal of Fatigue, 130, p.105237.
November 2019 Jacob, A., Mehmanparast, A., D’Urzo, R. and Kelleher, J. Experimental and numerical investigation of residual stress effects on fatigue crack growth behaviour of S355 steel weldments International Journal of Fatigue, 128, p.105196.
September 2019 Dirisu, P., Ganguly, S., Mehmanparast, A., Martina, F. and Williams, S. Analysis of fracture toughness properties of wire+ arc additive manufactured high strength low alloy structural steel components Materials Science and Engineering: A, 765, p.138285.
April 2019 V Igwemezie, P Dirusu, A Mehmanparast Critical assessment of the fatigue crack growth rate sensitivity to material microstructure in ferrite-pearlite steels in air and marine environment Science Direct, Volume 754, 29 April 2019, Pages 750-765.
March 2019 Igwemezie, V., Mehmanparast, A. and Kolios, A. Current trend in offshore wind energy sector and material requirements for fatigue resistance improvement in large wind turbine support structures–A review Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 101, pp.181-196.
February 2019 Xu, X., Ganguly, S., Ding, J., Dirisu, P., Martina, F., Liu, X. and Williams, S.W. Improving mechanical properties of wire plus arc additively manufactured maraging steel through plastic deformation enhanced aging response Materials Science and Engineering: A, 747, pp.111-118.
September 2018 Igwemezie, V., Mehmanparast, A. and Kolios, A. Materials selection for XL wind turbine support structures: A corrosion-fatigue perspective Marine Structures, 61, pp.381-397.
August 2018 Jacob, A., Oliveira, J., Mehmanparast, A., Hosseinzadeh, F., Kelleher, J. and Berto, F. Residual Stress Measurements in Offshore Wind Monopile Weldments using Neutron Diffraction Technique and Contour Method Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 96, pp.418-427.
May 2018 Mehmanparast, A., Taylor, J., Brennan, F. and Tavares, I. Experimental investigation of mechanical and fracture properties of offshore wind monopile weldments: SLIC interlaboratory test results Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 41(12), pp.2485-2501.
July 2016 A Jacob, A Mehmanparast Sensitivity Analysis of Material Microstructure Effects on Predicted Crack Paths Using Finite Element Simulations Journal of Multiscale Modelling, 7(02), p.1650003.
Offshore Wind Technologies Development and Optimization
March 2022 D. Cevasco, J. Tautz-Weinert, M. Richmond, A. Sobey, A. Kolios A Damage Detection and Location Scheme for Offshore Wind Turbine Jacket Structures Based on Global Modal Properties ASME J. Risk Uncertainty Part B. Jun 2022, 8(2): 021103 (12 pages)
February 2021 Mareike Leimeister, Athanasios Kolios, and Maurizio Collu Development of a Framework for Wind Turbine Design and Optimization MPDI, Modelling 2021, 2, 105–128.
November 2020 Mark Richmond, Ursula Smolka and Athanasios Kolios Feasibility for Damage Identification in Offshore Wind Jacket Structures through Monitoring of Global Structural Dynamics Energies, 13(21), 5791.
August 2020 M.Richmond, A.Sobey, R.Pandit, A.Kolios Stochastic assessment of aerodynamics within offshore wind farms based on machine-learning Renewable Energy, 161, p. 650
June 2020 M. Leimeister, A. Kolios, M. Collu A fully integrated optimization framework for designing a complex geometry offshore wind turbine spar-type floating support structure EAWE, European Academy of Wind Energy
June 2020 Colla, M., Ioannou, A. and Falcone, G. Critical review of competitiveness indicators for energy projects Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 125, p.109794.
April 2020 M. Leimeister, A. Kolios, M. Collu, and P. Thomas Design Optimization of the OC3 Phase IV Floating Spar-Buoy, Based on Global Limit States Ocean Engineering, 202 (2020): 107186.
March 2020 Ward, D., Collu, M. and Sumner, J. Analysis of the effect of a series of back twist blade configurations for an active pitch-to-stall floating offshore wind turbine American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.
February 2020 Lin, Z., Cevasco, D. and Collu, M. A methodology to develop reduced-order models to support the operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines Applied Energy, 259, p.114228.
February 2020 Ioannou, A., Liang, Y., Jalón, M.L. and Brennan, F.P. A preliminary parametric techno-economic study of offshore wind floater concepts Ocean Engineering, 197, p.106937.
January 2020 Ioannou, A., Angus, A. and Brennan, F. Stochastic financial appraisal of offshore wind farms Renewable Energy, 145, pp.1176-1191.
December 2019 L. Ma, T. Nishino and A. Antoniadis Prediction of the impact of support structures on the aerodynamic performance of large wind farms Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 11(6), p.063306.
October 2019 M.Richmond, A.Antoniadis, L.Wang, A.Kolios, S.Al-Sanad, J.Parol Evaluation of an offshore wind farm computational fluid dynamics model against operational site data Ocean Engineering, 193, p.106579.
May 2019 D Ward, M Collu, J Sumner Reducing Tower Fatigue through Blade Back Twist and Active Pitch-to-Stall Control Strategy for a Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Energies, 12(10), p.1897.
May 2019 Ioannou, A., Fuzuli, G., Brennan, F., Yudha, S.W. and Angus, A. Multi-stage stochastic optimization framework for power generation system planning integrating hybrid uncertainty modelling Energy Economics, 80, pp.760-776.
April 2019 Ioannou, A., Angus, A. and Brennan, F. Informing parametric risk control policies for operational uncertainties of offshore wind energy assets Ocean Engineering, 177, pp.1-11.
March 2019 Scheu, M.N., Tremps, L., Smolka, U., Kolios, A. and Brennan, F. A systematic Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis for offshore wind turbine systems towards integrated condition based maintenance strategies Ocean Engineering, 176, pp.118-133.
March 2019 Mytilinou, V. and Kolios, A.J. Techno-economic optimisation of offshore wind farms based on life cycle cost analysis on the UK Renewable Energy, 132, pp.439-454.
March 2019 Martinez-Luengo, M. and Shafiee, M. Guidelines and Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Structural Health Monitoring Implementation in Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures Energies, 12(6), p.1176.
February 2019 Martinez-Luengo, M., Shafiee, M. and Kolios, A. Data management for structural integrity assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures: data cleansing and missing data imputation Ocean Engineering, 173, pp.867-883.
November 2018 P. Causon and A. B. Gill Linking ecosystem services with epibenthic biodiversity change following installation of offshore wind farms Environmental Science & Policy, 89, pp.340-347.
October 2018 Marjan, A., & Shafiee, M Evaluation of Wind Resources and the Effect of market Price Components on Wind-Farm Income: A Case Study of Ørland in Norway Energies, 11(11), 2955.
October 2018 M N Scheu, D Matha, M A Schwarzkopf, A Kolios Human Exposure to Motion during Maintenance on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Ocean Engineering, 165, pp.293-306.
August 2018 M Leimeister, A Kolios A review of reliability-based methods for risk analysis and their application in the offshore wind industry Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 91, pp.1065-1076.
July 2018 Ioannou, A., Angus, A. and Brennan, F. A lifecycle techno-economic model of offshore wind energy for different entry and exit instances Applied Energy, 221, pp.406-424.
July 2018 V Mytilinou, Lozano-Minguez, E, A Kolios A Framework for the Selection of Optimum Offshore Wind Farm Locations for Deployment Energies 2018, 11(7), 1855.
May 2018 M Richmond, T Balaam, P Causon, D Cevasco, M Leimeister, A Kolios, F Brennan Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Benchmarking Human-Free Lifting Solutions in the Offshore Wind Energy Environment Energies, 11(5), p.1175.
May 2018 Ioannou, A., Angus, A. and Brennan, F. Parametric CAPEX, OPEX, and LCOE expressions for offshore wind farms based on global deployment parameters Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 13(5), pp.281-290.
March 2018 Cevasco, D., Collu, M., Rizzo, C.M. and Hall, M. On mooring line tension and fatigue prediction for offshore vertical axis wind turbines: A comparison of lumped mass and quasi-static approaches Wind Engineering, 42(2), pp.97-107.
December 2017 M Scheu, A Kolios, T Fischer, F Brennan Influence of statistical uncertainty of component reliability estimations on offshore wind farm availability Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 168, pp.28-39.
September 2017 Martinez-Luengo, M., Kolios, A. and Wang, L. Parametric FEA modelling of offshore wind turbine support structures: towards scaling-up and CAPEX reduction International journal of marine energy, 19, pp.16-31.
July 2017 V Mytilinou, A Kolios A multi-objective optimisation approach applied to offshore wind farm location selection Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, August 2017, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp 265-284
July 2017 A Ioannou, A Angus, F Brennan Risk-based methods for sustainable energy system planning: A review Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 74, pp.602-615.
December 2016 L Wang, M Martinez Luengo, A Kolios, Xiongwei Liu Structural optimisation of wind turbine towers based on finite element analysis and genetic algorithm Wind Energy Science
October 2016 M Martinez Luengo, A Kolios, L Wang Structural Health Monitoring of Offshore Wind Turbines: A review through the Statistical Pattern Recognition Paradigm Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 64, pp.91–105
July 2016 A Kolios, V Mytilinou, E Lozano-Minguez, K Salonitis A Comparative Study of Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Methods under Stochastic Inputs Energies 2016, 9(7), 566
May-June 2016 Kolios, A. and Martínez-Luengo, M. The end of the line for today’s wind turbines Renewable Energy Focus, 17(3), pp.109-111.
October 2015 V Mytilinou, A Kolios, G Di Lorenzo A comparative multi-disciplinary policy review in wind energy developments in Europe International Journal of Sustainable Energy
July 2015 M Martinez Luengo, A Kolios Failure Mode Identification and End of Life Scenarios of Offshore Wind Turbines A Review. Energies, 8, pp.8339-8354.
Geotechnical Engineering
January 2020 Whyte SA, Burd HJ, Martin CM and Rattley MJ. Formulation and implementation of a practical multi-surface soil plasticity model Computers and Geotechnics. 2020 Jan 1;117:103092.
August 2019 Richards, I.A., Byrne, B.W. and Houlsby, G.T. Monopile rotation under complex cyclic lateral loading in sand Géotechnique, pp.1-15.