An Investigation on the Effect of Watertightness Criteria on the Structural Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Substructures of Floating Wind Turbines
Affiliation:
1. Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Tokyo 102-8567, Japan
Abstract
The effect of watertightness criteria on structural assessment was investigated in this study through the design of a semi-submersible floater for a 10 MW wind turbine. A structural assessment was carried out for the ultimate, fatigue, and serviceability limit states, where six cases of combinations of the loading conditions and structural requirements were assumed for the assessment of watertightness. The different assessment conditions for watertightness resulted in different designs of prestressing tension, which also caused differences in the design margins for the ultimate limit states as well as the SN diagram used for the assessment of the fatigue limit states. The maximum stress acting on the member of the floating wind turbine differed by about 7.6 to 16.2% for the 50-year and 1-year environmental conditions. The small difference between the stresses for the two return periods can be attributed to the large component of the wind turbine thrust in the variable loads. When the partial load factor of 1.0 was used, the structural requirement in the prestressing design caused larger differences compared to the return period of the loading conditions in the watertightness assessment. The use of the partial load factor of 0.5 for the prestressing design also caused a large difference in the results of the structural assessment, indicating the necessity of further investigation of the determination of the partial load factor for floating offshore wind turbines.
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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