Method for anchoring a structure in a bed of a body of water and underwater foundation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9458592-B2
Application number	US-201314409391-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2013
Priority date	Jun 18, 2012
Publication date	Oct 4, 2016
Grant date	Oct 4, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for anchoring a structure in a bed of a body of water comprising the method steps of introducing at least one screw anchor into the bed of the body of water, arranging and fastening a base element on the fastening section of the screw anchor, wherein the base element has a holder for the structure, and arranging and fastening the structure on the holder of the base element. Furthermore, the invention relates to an underwater foundation produced by this method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for anchoring a structure in a bed of a body of water, comprising the steps of:
introducing a plurality of screw anchors arranged in arrangement patterns into the bed of the body of water such that each of the arrangement patterns includes three or more screw anchors, each of the plurality of screw anchors having a lower anchoring section anchored in the bed of the body of water and an upper fastening section projecting from the bed of the body of water,
introducing a plurality of base elements,
arranging and fastening each of the plurality of base elements on the fastening sections of the three or more screw anchors of the plurality of screw anchors, which are arranged in the respective arrangement pattern, wherein each of the plurality of base elements has a holder for the structure, and
arranging and fastening the structure on the holders of the plurality of base elements, wherein each of the arrangement patterns spans a surface on the bed of the body of water,
wherein each of the plurality of base elements comprises an upper end which is configured as an upper horizontal surface which is arranged above the three or more screw anchors arranged in the respective arrangement pattern, and
the holder of each of the plurality of base elements is arranged on the upper horizontal surface of the respective base element.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of base elements are installed in a predetermined arrangement, wherein the structure to be anchored has a scaffold-type jacket structure with a central receiving part located in the center and bearing feet arranged thereon that are fastened on the holders of the plurality of base elements.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising
inserting a mast into the central receiving part of the jacket structure and fastening the mast on the central receiving part.

4. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein before or after anchoring at least one ballast body is arranged on at least one of the plurality of base elements.

5. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the plurality of screw anchors is screwed with a drilling device into the bed of the body of water.

6. The method according to claim 5 ,
wherein at least one of the plurality of screw anchors is additionally anchored in the bed of the body of water by a binding agent which is injected into an outer circumferential area of the at least one of the plurality of screw anchors.

7. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the holders of the plurality of base elements are designed as receiving tubes, into which shaft-shaped bearing feet of the structure are inserted.

8. An underwater foundation for a structure having
a plurality of screw anchors arranged in arrangement patterns such that each of the arrangement patterns includes three or more screw anchors, each of the plurality of screw anchors being introduced into a bed of a body of water, and having a lower anchoring section anchored in the bed of the body of water and an upper fastening section projecting from the bed of the body of water, and
a plurality of base elements, each of which is arranged underwater and fastened on the three or more screw anchors of the plurality of screw anchors, which are arranged in the respective arrangement pattern, and has a holder for the structure, and each of the arrangement patterns spans a surface on the bed of the body of water,
wherein each of the plurality of base elements comprises an upper end which is configured as an upper horizontal surface which is arranged above the three or more screw anchors arranged in the respective arrangement pattern, and
the holder of each of the plurality of base elements is arranged on the upper horizontal surface of the respective base element.

9. The underwater foundation according to claim 8 ,
wherein each of the plurality of base elements is designed in a scaffold-type manner.

10. The underwater foundation according to claim 8 ,
wherein at least one of the plurality of base elements has one or several holders for receiving the structure.

11. The underwater foundation according to claim 8 ,
wherein one of the plurality of base elements, one or several supporting areas for ballast bodies are designed.

12. A wind power station having a mast which is anchored into a bed of a body of water by means of the underwater foundation according to claim 8 .

Assignees

• Bauer Maschinen Gmbh

Inventors

• Finkenzeller Stefan Michael
• Klippenstein Juergen

Classifications

• E02D27/525

  using elements penetrating the underwater ground (sinking work pieces E02D15/08, sinking caissons E02D23/02) · CPC title

• E02D5/62

  Compacting the soil at the footing or in {or along} a casing by forcing cement or like material through tubes · CPC title

• E02B17/0008

  Methods for grouting offshore structures; apparatus therefor (cementing boreholes E21B33/13) · CPC title

• E02D27/50

  Anchored foundations · CPC title

• E02D27/12

  Pile foundations · CPC title