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The three-bucket jacket foundation is a new type of foundation for offshore wind turbine that has the advantages of fast construction speed and suitability for deep water. The study of the hoisting and launching process is of great significance to ensure construction safety in actual projects. In this paper, a new launching technology is proposed that is based on the foundation of the three-bucket jacket for offshore wind turbine. A complete time domain simulation of the launching process of three-bucket jacket foundation is carried out by a theoretical analysis combined with hydrodynamic software Moses. At the same time, the effects of different initial air storage and sea conditions on the motion response of the structure and the hoisting cable tension are studied. The results show that the motion response of the structure is the highest when it is lowered to 1.5 times the bucket height. The natural period of each degree of freedom of the structure increases with the increase of the lowering depth. The structural motion response and the hoisting cable tension vary greatly in the early phases of Stages I and III, smaller in Stage II, and gradually stabilize in the middle and late phases of Stage III.

Internal air pressure and water pressure of the buckets foundation, acceleration and dragging force of the 4-bucket foundation platform were determined to analyze the influences of wave height on towing when 4-Bucket foundation platform is towing in conditions of a certain towing velocity, mooring point position and draught in different regular waves based on the model test. Comparing platform towing in following and head waves, the heave motion of the latter is more strenuous than that of the former; the stability and seakeeping of the former is better than those of the latter. Roll motion, pitch motion and heave motion appear aggravate phenomenon with the increase of wave height.