Abstract
Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are deployed in harsh environments often characterized by highly stochastic loads and resistance properties, thus necessitating the need for structural reliability assessment (SRA) to account for such uncertainties systematically. In this work, the SRA of an OWT jacket-type support structure is conducted, applying two stochastic methods to predict the safety level of the structure considering various design constraints. The first method refers to a commercial finite element analysis (FEA) package (DesignXplorer
Original language | English |
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Article number | 860 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Applied Sciences (Switzerland) |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 26 Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- Non-intrusive formulations
- Offshore wind structures
- Reliability index
- Stochastic modeling
- Structural reliability analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Instrumentation
- General Engineering
- Process Chemistry and Technology
- Computer Science Applications
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes