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Case Study on Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation  

Yoon, Gillim (한국해양과학기술원 연안개발.에너지연구부)
Kim, Hongyeon (삼부토건(주) 기술연구실)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.13, no.12, 2012 , pp. 91-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the behavior of offshore wind turbine(OWT) foundation which is modeled by using existing design method and FEM is compared. When the same type of foundation is designed under the same sea and ground condition, the behavior characteristics with each model are compared. As a result, the member forces between apparent fixity and distributed spring type foundation which consider the ground stiffness are not different markedly, while fixed-base type foundation shows relatively lower member forces, which results in smaller safety margin. In other words, considering ground stiffness is reasonable because soil-pile interaction affects significantly on the analysis result. A case study with a monopile shows significant errors between p-y and FEM model at the head and tip of the pile. Also, it shows that the errors at the tip with diameter increase of the pile is larger. Thus, considering ground characteristics and engineering judgment are necessary in practice. A comparison of reliability analysis between tripod and monopile type foundation on the same condition shows larger probability of failure in monopile type and it indicates that the safety margin of monopile type can be lower.
Keywords
Offshore wind turbine; Reliability analysis; Soil-pile interaction; Limit state; P-y modelling;
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