Time-domain fatigue reliability analysis for floating offshore wind turbine substructures using coupled nonlinear aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations
Zhu, Fengshen and Yeter, Baran and Brennan, Feargal and Collu, Maurizio (2024) Time-domain fatigue reliability analysis for floating offshore wind turbine substructures using coupled nonlinear aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations. Engineering Structures, 318. 118759. ISSN 0141-0296 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118759)
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Abstract
The present study aims to develop a novel methodology for the fatigue reliability analysis and design for a floating offshore wind turbine substructure using its fully coupled nonlinear dynamic responses in the time domain. The developed methodology offers a computationally efficient yet robust assessment for designing fatigue-critical welded joints on floating substructures. The methodology starts with the sea state selection based on the fatigue damage contribution of all the sea states in the scatter diagram. To this end, the dynamic response is analysed by fully coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations using OpenFAST. The resulting short-term fatigue loading is then used to estimate the hotspot stress history using the analytical solution for global structural analysis and the empirical solution for the stress concentration factor. The long-term fatigue damage is calculated as the joint probability-weighted sum of the short-term fatigue damage using Palmgren-Miner's linear damage rule. Afterwards, the selected sea states are used to perform dynamic response simulations with multiple random seeds, ensuring no significant accuracy loss. To obtain the probabilistic fatigue life prediction, a novel time-domain fatigue reliability analysis algorithm is developed based on the bootstrapping method, which creates a pool of short-term fatigue responses with different random seeds and combines them within a Monte Carlo Simulation. Finally, the fatigue reliability analysis considering the S-N and damage-tolerant approaches for design is carried out.
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Item type: Article ID code: 90210 Dates: DateEvent1 November 2024Published11 August 2024Published Online6 August 2024AcceptedSubjects:
Technology > Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineeringDepartment: Faculty of Engineering > Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Aug 2024 15:20 Last modified: 30 Aug 2024 01:16 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90210