Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-171-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-171-2020
Research article
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29 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2020

Reliability-based design optimization of offshore wind turbine support structures using analytical sensitivities and factorized uncertainty modeling

Lars Einar S. Stieng and Michael Muskulus

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ED: Publish as is (05 Dec 2019) by Athanasios Kolios
ED: Publish as is (15 Dec 2019) by Joachim Peinke (Chief editor)
AR by Lars Einar S. Stieng on behalf of the Authors (20 Dec 2019)
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We present a framework for reducing the cost of support structures for offshore wind turbines that takes into account the many uncertainties that go into the design process. The results demonstrate how an efficient new approach, tailored for support structure design, allows the state of the art for design without uncertainties to be used within a framework that does include these uncertainties. This allows more realistic, and less conservative, design methods to be used for practical design.
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