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Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1089-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1089-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Research article
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07 May 2024
Research article |  | 07 May 2024

Effect of scour on the fatigue life of offshore wind turbines and its prevention through passive structural control

Yu Cao, Ningyu Wu, Jigang Yang, Chao Chen, Ronghua Zhu, and Xugang Hua

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This study investigates the offshore wind turbine support structure’s fatigue life by a rapid numerical model which considers the effects of scour and a tuned mass damper. An optimization technique is proposed to find the damper's optimal parameters, considering time-varying scour. It is found that the damper optimized by the proposed optimization technique performs better than an initially designed damper in terms of fatigue life enhancement.
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