TY - CONF A1 - Shamsuddoha, Md A1 - Hüsken, Götz A1 - Baeßler, Matthias A1 - Kühne, Hans-Carsten A1 - Thiele, Marc T1 - Critical factors affecting the capacity of cylindrical grouted connections in offshore energy structures T2 - Structures, Safety and Reliability - Proceedings of the ASME N2 - Current trend suggests that global energy consumption will increase in the future. This growing energy demand and advancement of technology lead to explore all potential offshore fossil and non-fossil energy sources, necessitating erection of exploration and production structures, rigs, platforms and towers, which are susceptible to adverse environmental conditions along with their maintenances. Cylindrical grouted joints provide suitable connections between steel substructure and foundation in these offshore platforms and wind structures especially monopiles for ease of installation. However, these are composite connections with exterior sleeve, interior pile and infill grout. The capacity of these connections is affected by number of factors. The literature over last four decades by numerous researchers has shown the development of these connections with increasingly higher capacities and influences on these capacities due to various factors. This paper provides a comprehensive review on the factors affecting the connection capacity along with technical challenges for the future. Critical aspects and shortcomings of the current connection systems and potential solutions may be sought after for these issues are also discussed. T2 - 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering CY - Trondheim, Norway DA - 25.06.2017 KW - Offshore wind energy KW - Grouted connection KW - Joint capacity KW - Shear keys PY - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42387 AN - OPUS4-42387 SN - 978-0-7918-5766-3 VL - 3B SP - UNSP V03BT02A037, 1 EP - 10 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany