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http://dx.doi.org/10.5574/KSOE.2015.29.5.359

Reliability Analysis of Gravity-based Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Considering Ocean Environmental Loads and Soil Uncertainty  

Lee, Sang Geun (Department of Ocean Industrial Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Kim, Dong Hyawn (Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Kunsan National University)
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Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology / v.29, no.5, 2015 , pp. 359-365 More about this Journal
Abstract
A reliability analysis of the gravity-based foundation of anoffshore wind turbine was performed by considering the uncertainties of the design variables, including environmental loads. The limit state functions of the gravity-based foundation were defined using the response limits of the support structures suggested in the DNV standard. The wind load couldbe obtained using the GH_bladed software, and the wave load was calculated using the Morison equation. Then, the extreme distributions of the wind and wave loads were estimated by applying the peak over threshold (POT) method to the wind and wave load data. The probability distribution characteristics of the soil properties were defined with reference to a southwest coast geotechnical survey report. The reliability index was evaluated for each failure mode using a first-order reliability method.
Keywords
Offshore wind turbine; Gravity-based foundation; Reliability analysis; First-order reliability method(FORM);
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