Comparative study of structural reliability assessment methods for offshore wind turbine jacket support structures

Abdulhakim Adeoye Shittu, Ali Mehmanparast, Lin Wang, Konstantinos Salonitis, Athanasios Kolios

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    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 languageEnglish
    Article number860
    Number of pages32
    JournalApplied Sciences (Switzerland)
    Volume10
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 26 Jan 2020

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    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

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