Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-469-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-469-2017
Brief communication
 | 
12 Sep 2017
Brief communication |  | 12 Sep 2017

Brief communication: Structural monitoring for lifetime extension of offshore wind monopiles: can strain measurements at one level tell us everything?

Lisa Ziegler, Ursula Smolka, Nicolai Cosack, and Michael Muskulus

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Jul 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel
AR by Lisa Ziegler on behalf of the Authors (18 Jul 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (27 Jul 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel
ED: Publish as is (31 Jul 2017) by Joachim Peinke (Chief editor)
AR by Lisa Ziegler on behalf of the Authors (02 Aug 2017)
Download
Short summary
The first larger offshore wind farms are reaching a mature age. Operators have to take actions for monitoring now in order to have accurate knowledge on structural reserves later. This knowledge is important to make decisions on lifetime extension. Many offshore wind turbines have one set of strain gauges already installed at the transition piece. We present a simple and robust method to extrapolate these measurements to other locations of the monopile without need of additional instrumentation.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint