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Lloyd’s Register, London, 24th May 2017
One of the areas of particular concern for OWT, as designed for a long life-time,
is the fatigue design. In the case of the OWT towers, fatigue is seen as a major
driver of failure.
Its long term character demands that a significant computational effort is Main conclusions and next steps
needed in the process of designing an OWT (thousands of simulations that may
Significant computational effort can be cut by using a Kriging surface approach to
take an average of 10~20 minutes time to run). This makes the design of the
calculate the fatigue of OWT. Still, major challenges need to be tackled. Major
tower resource consuming on a practical basis; and almost unfeasible on a
example is the need to find a strategy to approach ideally the variability of the
probabilistic optimization framework. Naturally, this fact foments the
short-term damage (DSH) generated by the wind. These limitations are being
development of new methodologies to assess in a probabilistic way the OWT
tackled by TRUSS and the framework proposed for it.
tower fatigue.
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Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 642453
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