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2024

Idarraga, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Abad, Farhad and Huang, Yang and Dai, Saishuai and Xiao, Qing and Lotfian, Saeid and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Hyperelastic behaviour of elastomers for wave energy applications. Ocean Engineering, 313 (Part 3). 119652. ISSN 0029-8018

Rodríguez Castillo, Claudio A. and Collu, Maurizio and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Design considerations and preliminary hydrodynamic analysis of an offshore decentralised floating wind-hydrogen system. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 89. pp. 496-506. ISSN 0360-3199

Li, Shen and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Digital twin enabled structural integrity management : critical review and framework development. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, 238 (4). pp. 707-727. ISSN 1475-0902

Zhu, Fengshen and Yeter, Baran and Brennan, Feargal and Collu, Maurizio (2024) Time-domain fatigue reliability analysis for floating offshore wind turbine substructures using coupled nonlinear aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations. Engineering Structures, 318. 118759. ISSN 0141-0296

Mowafy, Ahmed Al and Lotfian, Saeid and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Decommissioning offshore wind fixed steel pile foundations : a critical review. Energies, 17 (21). 5460. ISSN 1996-1073

Huang, Yang and Idarraga, Guillermo and Xiao, Qing and Yang, Liu and Dai, Saishuai and Abad, Farhad and Brennan, Feargal and Lotfian, Saeid; (2024) Numerical analysis of structured sheet material in flexible oscillating water column wave energy converter. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024). American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SGP. ISBN 9780791887851

Abad, Farhad and Lotfian, Saeid and Dai, Saishuai and Zhao, Guangwei and Idarraga Alarcon, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Huang, Yang and Xiao, Qing and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Experimental and computational analysis of elastomer membranes used in oscillating water column WECs. Renewable Energy, 226. 120422. ISSN 0960-1481

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Ermakov, Andrei and Shi, Weichao and Ringwood, John V. and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Optimal control of wave cycloidal rotors with passively morphing foils : an analytical and numerical study​. Marine Structures, 95. 103597. ISSN 0951-8339

Mehmanparast, Ali and Chahardehi, Amir and Brennan, Feargal and Manzocchi, Mark (2024) Re-evaluation of fatigue design curves for offshore wind monopile foundations using thick as-welded test specimens. Engineering Failure Analysis, 158. 107971. ISSN 1350-6307

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Collu, Maurizio and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Hinged very large floating structures for wave energy conversion and wind turbine foundation. In: Supergen ORE Hub Seventh Annual Assembly, 2024-04-24 - 2024-04-24, University of Plymouth.

Li, Shen and Brennan, Feargal (2024) Implementation of digital twin-enabled virtually monitored data in inspection planning. Applied Ocean Research, 144. 103903. ISSN 0141-1187

Rodríguez Castillo, Claudio Alexis and Yeter, Baran and Li, Shen and Brennan, Feargal and Collu, Maurizio (2024) A critical review of challenges and opportunities for the design and operation of offshore structures supporting renewable hydrogen production, storage, and transport. Wind Energy Science, 9 (3). 533–554. ISSN 2366-7451

Javadi, Yashar and Mills, Brandon and MacLeod, Charles and Lines, David and Abad, Farhad and Lotfian, Saeid and Mehmanparast, Ali and Pierce, Gareth and Brennan, Feargal and Gachagan, Anthony and Mineo, Carmelo (2024) Phased array ultrasonic method for robotic preload measurement in offshore wind turbine bolted connections. Sensors, 24 (5). 1421. ISSN 1424-8220

2023

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Yeter, Baran and Abad, Farhad and Ordóñez-Sánchez, Stephanie and Lotfian, Saeid and Brennan, Feargal (2023) Material selection framework for lift-based wave energy converters using fuzzy TOPSIS. Energies, 16 (21). 7324. ISSN 1996-1073

Huang, Yang and Xiao, Qing and Idarraga, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Dai, Saishuai and Abad, Farhad and Brennan, Feargal and Lotfian, Saeid; (2023) Numerical analysis of flexible tube wave energy converter using CFD-FEA method. In: ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), AUS. ISBN 978-0-7918-8690-8

Huang, Yang and Xiao, Qing and Idarraga Alarcon, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Dai, David and Abad, Farhad and Brennan, Feargal and Lotfian, Saeid; Ilzarbe, Jesús María Blanco, ed. (2023) A CFD-FEM analysis for Anaconda WEC with mooring lines. In: Proceedings of the 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2023. EWTEC, Bilbao.

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Dai, Saishuai and Chen, Yongqiang and Zhang, Xiantao and Brennan, Feargal (2023) Understanding the force motion trade off of rigid and hinged floating platforms for marine renewables. Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 15. pp. 1-10. ISSN 2706-6940

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Lamont-Kane, Paul and Shi, Weichao and Folley, Matt and Brennan, Feargal (2023) A probabilistic framework for fatigue damage of lift based wave energy converters. Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 15. pp. 1-10. ISSN 2706-6940

Huang, Yang and Xiao, Qing and Idarraga, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Dai, David and Abad, Farhad and Brennan, Feargal and Lotfian, Saeid (2023) Novel computational fluid dynamics-finite element analysis solution for the study of flexible material wave energy converters. Physics of Fluids, 35 (8). 083611. ISSN 1070-6631

Javadi, Yashar and Mills, Brandon and Pourrahimian Leilabadi, Parinaz and Nicolson, Ewan and Lotfian, Saeid and Zimermann, Rastislav and Abad, Farhad and Mehmanparast, Ali and MacLeod, Charles and Pierce, Gareth and Lines, David and Brennan, Feargal and Mehnen, Jorn and Gachagan, Anthony (2023) Phased array ultrasonic testing of ‎offshore wind bolted flange ‎connections. In: 50th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, 2023-07-24 - 2023-07-27, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol,.

Idarraga, Guillermo and Yang, Liu and Abad, Farhad and Huang, Yang and Dai, David and Xiao, Qing and Lotfian, Saeid and Brennan, Feargal; (2023) Hyperelastic modelling of elastomers for wave energy convertors. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASME, AUS.

Mills, Brandon and Javadi, Yashar and Lotfian, Saeid and MacLeod, Charles Norman and Lines, David and Pierce, Gareth and Brennan, Feargal and Gachagan, Anthony (2023) A Novel Procedure for the Inspection of Wind Turbine Bolts. In: Wind Energy Science Conference 2023, 2023-05-23 - 2023-05-26, University of Strathclyde.

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Olbert, Gerrit and Shi, Weichao and Brennan, Feargal (2023) Near wake hydrodynamics and structural design of a single foil cycloidal rotor in regular waves. Renewable Energy, 206. pp. 1020-1035. ISSN 0960-1481

Abad, F. and Lotfian, S. and Dai, S. and Zhao, G. and Alarcon, G. and Yang, L. and Huang, Y. and Xiao, Q. and Brennan, F.; (2023) Experimental study on inflatable circular diaphragms used in the oscillating water column wave energy converter. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2023). Taylor & Francis, SWE.

2022

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Ermakov, Andrei and Shi, Weichao and Ringwood, John V. and Brennan, Feargal (2022) Control strategies for power enhancement and fatigue damage mitigation of wave cycloidal rotors. Other. Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Amsterdam.

Li, Shen and Coraddu, Andrea and Brennan, Feargal (2022) A framework for optimal sensor placement to support structural health monitoring. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10 (12). 1819. ISSN 2077-1312

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Olbert, Gerrit and Shi, Weichao and Brennan, Feargal (2022) Near wake hydrodynamics and structural design of a single foil cycloidal rotor in regular waves. Other. Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Amsterdam.

Sunday, Kingsley and Brennan, Feargal (2022) Influence of soil–structure modelling techniques on offshore wind turbine monopile structural response. Wind Energy, 25 (6). pp. 998-1012. ISSN 1095-4244

Fajuyigbe, A. and Brennan, F. (2022) A simplified formula for calculating the limit load of cracked offshore wind turbine monopile under bending. Marine Structures, 83. 103164. ISSN 0951-8339

2021

Al-Turaihi, Ali and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal and Soyama, Hitoshi (2021) Cavitation shotless peening effects on fatigue crack growth behaviour under bending loads. Material Design & Processing Communications, 3 (6). 88. ISSN 2577-6576

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Brennan, Feargal (2021) Floating offshore vertical axis wind turbines : opportunities, challenges and way forward. Energies, 14 (23). 8000. ISSN 1996-1073

Arredondo-Galeana, Abel and Shi, Weichao and Olbert, Gerrit and Scharf, Martin and Ermakov, Andrei and Ringwood, John V. and Brennan, Feargal (2021) A methodology for the structural design of LiftWEC : a wave-bladed cyclorotor. In: The 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 2021-09-05 - 2021-09-09.

Sunday, Kingsley and Brennan, Feargal (2021) A review of offshore wind monopiles structural design achievements and challenges. Ocean Engineering, 235. 109409. ISSN 0029-8018

Anandavijayan, Satya and Mehmanparast, Ali and Braithwaite, Jarryd and Brennan, Feargal and Chahardehi, Amir (2021) Material pre-straining effects on fatigue behaviour of S355 structural steel. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 183. 106707. ISSN 0143-974X

Khodabux, Waseem and Brennan, Feargal (2021) Objective analysis of corrosion pits in offshore wind structures using image processing. Energies, 14 (17). 5428. ISSN 1996-1073

Anandavijayan, Satya and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal and Chahardehi, Amir (2021) Material pre-straining effects on fracture toughness variation in offshore wind turbine foundations. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 252. 107844. ISSN 0013-7944

Khodabux, Waseem and Liao, Carole and Brennan, Feargal (2021) Characterisation of pitting corrosion for inner section of offshore wind foundation using laser scanning. Ocean Engineering, 230. 109079. ISSN 0029-8018

Zhang, Xiantao and Lu, Da and Liang, Yibo and Brennan, Feargal (2021) Feasibility of very large floating structure as offshore wind foundation : effects of hinge numbers on wave loads and induced responses. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 147 (3). 0000626. ISSN 0733-950X

Amirafshari, Peyman and Brennan, Feargal and Kolios, Athanasios (2021) A fracture mechanics framework for optimising design and inspection of offshore wind turbine support structures against fatigue failure. Wind Energy Science, 6 (3). pp. 677-699. ISSN 2366-7451

Fajuyigbe, A. and Brennan, F. (2021) Fitness-for-purpose assessment of cracked offshore wind turbine monopile. Marine Structures, 77. 102965. ISSN 0951-8339

2020

Igwemezie, Victor and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal (2020) The influence of microstructure on the fatigue crack growth rate in marine steels in the Paris Region. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 43 (10). pp. 2416-2440. ISSN 8756-758X

Moghaddam, Behrooz Tafazzoli and Hamedany, Ali Mahboob and Taylor, Jessica and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal and Davies, Catrin Mair and Nikbin, Kamran (2020) Structural integrity assessment of floating offshore wind turbine support structures. Ocean Engineering, 208. 107487. ISSN 0029-8018

Jalón, María L. and Brennan, Feargal (2020) Hydrodynamic efficiency versus structural longevity of a fixed OWC wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 206. 107260. ISSN 0029-8018

Khodabux, Waseem and Causon, Paul and Brennan, Feargal (2020) Profiling corrosion rates for offshore wind turbines with depth in the North Sea. Energies, 13 (10). 2518. ISSN 1996-1073

2019

Li, Danning and Prevost, Raphael and Ayre, David and Yoosefinejad, Ata and Lotfian, Saeid and Brennan, Feargal and Nezhad, Hamed Yazdani; (2019) Development of damage tolerant composite laminates using ultra-thin interlaminar electrospun thermoplastic nanofibres. In: 18th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM-18). Applied Mechanics Laboratory, GRC. ISBN 9781510896932

Lotfian, Saeid and Kumar, Vijay Thakur and Giraudmaillet, Claire and Yoosefinejad, Ata and Brennan, Feargal and Nezhad, Hamed Yazdani; (2019) Towards the use of electrospun piezoelectric nanofibre layers for enabling in-situ measurement in high performance composite laminates. In: 18th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM-18). Applied Mechanics Laboratory, GRC. ISBN 9781510896932

Moghaddam, Behrooz Tafazzoli and Hamedany, Ali Mahboob and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal and Nikbin, Kamran and Davies, Catrin Mair (2019) Numerical analysis of pitting corrosion fatigue in floating offshore wind turbine foundations. Procedia Structural Integrity, 17. pp. 64-71. ISSN 2452-3216

Ioannou, Anastasia and Brennan, Feargal; (2019) A preliminary techno-economic comparison between a grid-connected and non-grid connected offshore floating wind farm. In: 2019 Offshore Energy and Storage Summit, OSES 2019. IEEE, FRA. ISBN 9781728123172

Ioannou, Anastasia and Fuzuli, Gulistiani and Brennan, Feargal and Yudha, Satya Widya and Angus, Andrew (2019) Multi-stage stochastic optimization framework for power generation system planning integrating hybrid uncertainty modelling. Energy Economics, 80. pp. 760-776. ISSN 0140-9883

Kolios, Athanasios and Wang, Lin and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal (2019) Determination of stress concentration factors in offshore wind welded structures through a hybrid experimental and numerical approach. Ocean Engineering, 178. pp. 38-47. ISSN 0029-8018

Ioannou, Anastasia and Angus, Andrew and Brennan, Feargal (2019) Informing parametric risk control policies for operational uncertainties of offshore wind energy assets. Ocean Engineering, 177. pp. 1-11. ISSN 0029-8018

Scheu, Matti Niclas and Tremps, Lorena and Smolka, Ursula and Kolios, Athanasios and Brennan, Feargal (2019) 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. ISSN 0029-8018

2018

Anandavijayan, Satya and Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal (2018) A numerical analysis of the effects of manufacturing processes on material pre-strain in offshore wind monopiles. Procedia Structural Integrity, 13. pp. 953-958. ISSN 2452-3216

Yiatros, Stylianos and Marangos, Orestes and Votsis, Renos A. and Brennan, Feargal P. (2018) Compressive properties of granular foams of adhesively bonded steel hollow sphere blocks. Mechanics Research Communications, 94. pp. 13-20. ISSN 1873-3972

Leimeister, M. and Balaam, T. and Causon, P. and Cevasco, D. and Richmond, M. and Kolios, A. and Brennan, F. (2018) Human-free offshore lifting solutions. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1102 (1). 012030. ISSN 1742-6588

Leimeister, Mareike and Balaam, Toby and Causon, Paul and Cevasco, Debora and Richmond, Mark and Kolios, Athanasios and Brennan, Feargal (2018) Human-free offshore lifting solutions. In: Global Wind Summit 2018 - WindEurope Conference and WindEnergy Hamburg, 2018-09-25 - 2018-09-28.

Ioannou, Anastasia and Angus, Andrew and Brennan, Feargal (2018) A lifecycle techno-economic model of offshore wind energy for different entry and exit instances. Applied Energy, 221. pp. 406-424. ISSN 0306-2619

Mehmanparast, A. and Taylor, J. and Brennan, F. and Tavares, I. (2018) Experimental investigation of mechanical and fracture properties of offshore wind monopile weldments : SLIC interlaboratory test results. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures. ISSN 8756-758X

Richmond, Mark and Balaam, Toby and Causon, Paul and Cevasco, Debora and Leimeister, Mareike and Kolios, Athanasios and Brennan, Feargal (2018) Multi-criteria decision analysis for benchmarking human-free lifting solutions in the offshore wind energy environment. Energies, 11 (5). 1175. ISSN 1996-1073

Ioannou, Anastasia and Angus, Andrew and Brennan, Feargal (2018) 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. ISSN 1556-7257

Al-Turaihi, A. and Mehmanparast, A. and Brennan, F. (2018) The influence of partial surface shot peening on fatigue crack growth behaviour of a high-strength ferritic steel. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 41 (3). pp. 663-674. ISSN 8756-758X

2017

Scheu, Matti Niclas and Kolios, Athanasios and Fischer, Tim and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Influence of statistical uncertainty of component reliability estimations on offshore wind farm availability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 168. pp. 28-39. ISSN 0951-8320

Bello, Muhammadu and Ranganathan, Panneerselvam and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Life cycle optimization for sustainable algal biofuel production using integrated nutrient recycling technology. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 5 (11). pp. 9869-9880. ISSN 2168-0485

Adedipe, O. and Brennan, F. and Mehmanparast, A. and Kolios, A. and Tavares, I. (2017) Corrosion fatigue crack growth mechanisms in offshore monopile steel weldments. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 40 (11). pp. 1868-1881. ISSN 8756-758X

Vaienti, Claudio and Ioannou, Anastasia and Brennan, Feargal; (2017) Cash flow at risk of offshore wind plants. In: 2017 6th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power. IEEE, ITA, pp. 84-93. ISBN 9781509046829

Ioannou, A. and Vaienti, C. and Angus, A. and Brennan, F.; (2017) A cluster analysis of investment strategies in the offshore wind energy market. In: 2017 6th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power. IEEE, ITA, pp. 362-369. ISBN 9781509046829

Ioannou, Anastasia and Angus, Andrew and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Risk-based methods for sustainable energy system planning : a review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 74. pp. 602-615. ISSN 1879-0690

Bello, Muhammadu and Ranganathan, Panneerselvam and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Dynamic modelling of microalgae cultivation process in high rate algal wastewater pond. Algal Research, 24 (B). pp. 457-466. ISSN 2211-9264

Ioannou, Anastasia and Wang, Lin and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Design implications towards inspection reduction of large scale structures. Procedia CIRP, 60. pp. 434-439. ISSN 2212-8271

Ioannou, Anastasia and Angus, Andrew and Brennan, Feargal (2017) Stochastic prediction of offshore wind farm LCOE through an integrated cost model. Energy Procedia, 107. pp. 383-389. ISSN 1876-6102

Mehmanparast, Ali and Brennan, Feargal and Tavares, Isaac (2017) Fatigue crack growth rates for offshore wind monopile weldments in air and seawater : SLIC inter-laboratory test results. Materials and Design, 114. pp. 494-504. ISSN 0264-1275

2014

Collu, M. and Brennan, F. P. and Patel, M. H. (2014) Conceptual design of a floating support structure for an offshore vertical axis wind turbine : the lessons learnt. Ships and Offshore Structures, 9 (1). pp. 3-21. ISSN 1754-212X

2013

Brennan, Feargal (2013) Risk based maintenance for offshore wind structures. Procedia CIRP, 11. pp. 296-300. ISSN 2212-8271

Borg, Michael and Collu, Maurizio and Brennan, Feargal P. (2013) Use of a wave energy converter as a motion suppression device for floating wind turbines. Energy Procedia, 35. pp. 223-233. ISSN 1876-6102