Solution) for the benchmarking of those candidate options. An application comparing a monopile, a tripod and a jacket, for a …

neglected. This paper investigates the significance of foundation damping on monopile-supported OWTs subjected to extreme storm … foundation model based on the soil-pile mudline stiffness matrix was used to represent the monopile, hydrodynamic effects were …

An improved modal strain energy method is proposed for damage localisation in jacket-type offshore wind turbines by … on a tripod offshore jacket wind turbine reveal that the proposed method could locate the damage positions for jacket …. The performance of the proposed method is also investigated using real measurements from a steel jacket-type offshore wind …

Reliability analysis of jacket type offshore wind turbine (OWT) support structure under extreme ocean environmental … used to express LSF of jacket type support structure for 5 MW OWT. Reliability index is found using first order reliability …

This paper presents a reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) method for a monopile transition piece in an … offshore wind turbine system. Two design approaches are investigated for the cost-effective and reliable design of the monopile … minimizing the mass of a conical monopile connection is carried out, including an assessment of the reliability of the DO design …

This work presents an efficient methodology for the Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of the tripod sub-structure … (FE) model of a tripod sub-structure of the NERL 5 MW wind turbine was constructed for dynamic response analysis in time … Design Optimization of tripod sub-structure of offshore wind turbines is more rational and practical and this efficient …