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http://dx.doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2022.35.2.93

Collision Behavior Comparison of Offshore Wind Tower as Type of Support Structure  

Lee, Gye-Hee (Department of Ocean Civil Engineering, Mokpo National Maritime University)
Kwag, Dae-Jin (Haegi Service & Technology Inc.)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.35, no.2, 2022 , pp. 93-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
The collision behaviors of the tripod and jacket structures, which are considered as support structures for offshore wind towers at the Southwest sea of Korea, were compared by nonlinear dynamic analysis. These structures, designed for the 3 MW capacity of the wind towers, were modeled using shell elements with nonlinear behaviors, and the tower structure including the nacelle, was modeled by beam and mass elements with elastic materials. The mass of the tripod structure was approximately 1.66 times that of the jacket structure. A barge and commercial ship were modeled as the collision vessel. To consider the tidal conditions in the region, the collision levels were varied from -3.5 m to 3.5 m of the mean sea level. In addition, the collision behaviors were evaluated as increasing the minimum collision energy at the collision speed (=2.6 m/s) of each vessel by four times, respectively. Accordingly, the plastic energy dissipation ratios of the vessel were increased as the stiffness of collision region. The deformations in the wind tower occurred from vibration to collapse of conditions. The tripod structure demonstrated more collision resistance than the jacket structure. This is considered to be due to the concentrated centralized rigidity and amount of steel utilized.
Keywords
support of offshore wind tower; vessel collision analysis; tripod structure; jacket structure; collision level; energy dissipation;
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