Lennart van Baalen

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Lennart van Baalen is currently working as Manager, Research Development & Support at Visser & Smit Marine Contracting, which is part of the Volker Wessels group. VSMC specialises in cable installation and burial for offshore wind mill parks. Van Baalen studied Engineering Geology at Delft University of Technology, faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (previously Mining and Petroleum Engineering). He then worked in Namibia for an offshore diamond mining company. He has also worked on offshore pipeline installation and burial in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Articles By Lennart van Baalen

Calculations on Forces and Velocities of a Submarine Narrow Trench Plough in Sandy Soil

Authors: Ruud Beindorff | Sape Miedema | Lennart van Baalen

Demand for submarine cables for exporting the energy from wind farms to shore is increasing. To prevent damage to the cables when exposed on the sea bed, adequate protection is critical, but current calculation methods are usually empirically extrapolated. To better predict towing forces, a new calculation method is given.

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