Articles | Volume 3, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-805-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-805-2018
Research article
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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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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.
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