Seminar Series: Dr. Ning Luo, Geospatial & Geostatistical Analysis for Efficient & Effective Offshore Wind Farm Site Investigation

College Station, TX –

Dr. Ning Luo visited Texas A&M University on September 8th to present his work on “Geospatial & Geostatistical Analysis for Efficient and Effective Offshore Wind Farm Site Investigation and Foundation Safety,” to civil engineering Graduate Students. The graduate seminar, Structures, Geotechnical and Construction Division is instructed by Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina, Associate Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Luo is an Assistant Professor in civil engineering working at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi since 2022. He received his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from Queen\’s University in 2017 and has experience in offshore wind energy research during his postdoctoral work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests encompass offshore geotechnics, transportation geotechnics, risk & reliability analysis, extreme climate events’ impact on geotechnical infrastructures, and field instrumentation and monitoring.

His seminar focused on improving the efficiency of planning and executing offshore geotechnical site investigations can have the potential benefit to reduce total capital cost and speed up project process. Dr. Luo explored the possibility of reducing the number of borings/soundings in both simple and complex soil deposits, which can be intentionally lower than the number of wind turbine foundations installed in soundings. The presentation also demonstrated how borehole data could be used to develop a realistic 3D stochastic model to simulate boulder spatial distribution.*

*Bio and abstract provided by Dr. Luo