The programme, being carried out by the Humlebæk-based naval architect and marine engineering consultancy at a refurbished local maritime testing facility, will put a 1:200-scale Tria through its paces to double-check computer modelling of the triangular design against its real-world behaviour under different hydrodynamic conditions and wind loads.
The company’s turbine-agnostic floater is based on a three-sided, steel pontoon and column structure with a difference — unlike other semi-submersibles that sit half-submerged in operation, the Tria hull would be ballasted to be entirely under water, with only towers and rotors visible above the waves.
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