Reducing the number of load cases for fatigue damage assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures using a simple severity-based sampling method

Stieng, Lars Einar S.; Muskulus, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-805-2018

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-805-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-805-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

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30 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 30 Oct 2018

Reducing the number of load cases for fatigue damage assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures using a simple severity-based sampling method

Lars Einar S. Stieng and Michael Muskulus

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RC1: 'Reducing the number of load cases for fatigue damage assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures by a simple severity-based sampling method', Jan Häfele, 13 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Comments about the paper by reviewer', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Jul 2018
AC1: 'Author response to referee comments', Lars Einar S. Stieng, 23 Aug 2018
AC2: 'Addendum to AC1: Author response to referee comments', Lars Einar S. Stieng, 23 Aug 2018
EC1: 'Resubmit an updated version of the manuscript', Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen, 23 Aug 2018

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AR by Lars Einar S. Stieng on behalf of the Authors (18 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Sep 2018) by Lars Pilgaard Mikkelsen

ED: Publish as is (03 Oct 2018) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel (Chief editor)

AR by Lars Einar S. Stieng on behalf of the Authors (10 Oct 2018)

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This study was done in order to simplify the analysis needed for the assessment of safety criteria that offshore wind turbine support structures must satisfy. The work was done via simulations of the system and computations and analyses of the resulting data. The results show that the proposed methodology has great potential for simplifying the assessment procedure while retaining acceptable accuracy compared to the full analysis. There are several applications within both research and industry.