DIGITAL SOLUTIONS

DNV GL – a powerhouse for offshore wind

Complete structural analysis for offshore wind structures
DNV GL
29 January 2019

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Topics of this webinar

▪ Introduction to
– modelling in Sesam and Bladed
– the cloud

▪ Superelement workflow in the cloud

– Generation of foundation superelements and wave
loads
– Wind turbine analysis using Bladed
– Foundation analysis using Sesam
– Viewing results using Sesam Insight
– Performing redesign

▪ Recent and upcoming software updates

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Introduction to
Sesam and Bladed

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Offshore wind – combining DNV GL competencies

+ =

40+ years of offshore oil

& gas experience

DNV GL has 30+ years DNV GL – Digital Solutions Global leader in risk
of hands-on experience provides 50 years of offshore management of
with wind turbines. oil & gas experience. offshore wind projects

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Sesam – a 50 years success story – the most complete system

▪ Strength assessment and sea-keeping analysis

– Combining the best from finite element,
radiation/diffraction & Morison theories and pair it
with engineering expertise
▪ Used to design ships, offshore floaters, offshore fixed
installations, offshore wind turbine structures and
marine systems
– API, AISC, NORSOK, EUROCODE, ISO, IEC, DNV
GL, CSR
▪ Covers all engineering tasks and marine operations
during the lifetime of the structure, mooring lines,
risers, umbilical and pipe lines
– Design, modification & life extension The Oseberg Field designed with Sesam
GBS, Topside, Jacket, Living Quarter, Heli-deck,
▪ More than 250 organizations use Sesam – thousands Bridge, Flareboom, Subsea template, Riser, Pipeline
of users rely on its efficiency, quality & support every Construction, transportation, marine operation,
day installation

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Sesam

Structure, wave, Integrated with

wind and soil wind turbine tools

Sesam
FLS
ULS
SLS
Transport, installation,
corrosion protection and ALS
decommissioning

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Bladed

▪ Bladed is the industry standard integrated software

package for the design of onshore and offshore wind
turbines.

▪ Over 650 licenses worldwide, 300 organisations

– 9 of the top 10 wind turbine manufacturers in the
world own Bladed
– Also used by component suppliers, universities and
research institutes, certification agencies,
consultants

▪ Maintained and developed by engineers with over 30

years' experience in the wind industry

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Bladed

Wind

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Sesam & Bladed work together – increasing engineering efficiency

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Standards referred

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Introduction to
Cloud computing with Bladed and Sesam

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Introduction to cloud – Rising Expectations

Volume of Simulations
▪ Increased modelling complexity
▪ Typical Offshore Loadset: 5,000-10,000 simulations
▪ Fast turnaround e.g. for site suitability evaluations

In House Options
▪ Expensive (Hardware, Licences, Admin)
▪ Have long lead times
▪ Potentially idle for most of the time

Cloud
▪ Elastic scaling to match demand
▪ Perform design iterations more quickly
▪ Only paying for actual usage

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Introduction to cloud

Temp Data
Scheduling
Scaling
Compute
Data Store
Scheduling
Scaling
Compute

All Storage
AMI Scheduling
Scaling
Metadata
Compute

DNV GL VPC
Customer’s VPC

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Introduction to cloud - Bladed

Option 1 – “Integrated with Bladed”

Temp Data
Scheduling
▪ Integrated with Bladed Batch
Scaling ▪ No customer configuration
Compute
▪ Data stored locally

Option 2 – “shared AMI”

All Storage ▪ Machine image shared with customer

AMI Scheduling
▪ Virtual machine instances managed by customer
Scaling
Metadata
Compute
▪ For customers who want to build their own cloud
workflow or integrate with existing
DNV GL VPC
Customer’s VPC

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Introduction to cloud – Sesam

▪ Integrated with the desktop apps

– Workspace defined on local pc
▪ Integration with all workflows
– Template input files (small) uploaded to cloud
– Each load case processed by a cloud computer Data Store
– Results post-processed in the cloud Scheduling
– Post-processed results (small) downloaded / Scaling
viewed online Compute
– (Large result files remain in storage if desired, for
redesign)
▪ Results can be re-downloaded if needed
▪ Redesign can be performed on existing cloud results
if desired
▪ Results can be viewed in the cloud

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Introduction to cloud – Security

▪ Strong focus on data security

– Large volume of data Input

– Encrypted communication
Resu
lts
– Private storage per user

– Option: no permanent storage in the Cloud

Input

Resu
lts

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Introduction to cloud – performance and efficiency gains

Combinations of wave, wind and turbine state

Full, single design iteration includes 5,000-10,000
design load cases

Bladed
▪ 1000x 600s DLCs ➔ 7 days simulation time
▪ 40min on 100 cloud nodes

Sesam
▪ 2000x 600s DLCs ➔ 7-9 weeks of simulation time
▪ 45min-1hr on 2000 cloud nodes

Large efficiency gains are achieved using Cloud computing

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Superelement analysis workflow in the cloud

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Industry workflows are supported – integrated and superelement

▪ There are two workflows in the industry

▪ Both lead to fatigue and ULS checks
▪ Both are supported

Analyse with wave

and wind loads
Integrated approach
Superelement approach

Modelling Fatigue and ultimate

strength analysis
+ + +…

𝐾, 𝐷, 𝑀, 𝐹 Super-
element
Sesam
Compute wave Convert to Analyse with wave Analyse with wave
Bladed
loads superelement and wind loads and interface loads

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Cloud – superelement generation workflow overview

Cloud Cloud Cloud

Download Download Download

Upload Upload Upload

Fatigue Manager Bladed Batch Fatigue Manager

model results
Model, Super- Turbine SE Model, Post-
DLCs, element model interface DLCs, processed
settings files loads settings results

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Cloud – superelement generation workflow (1/3)

Results
Results
Input Results
Input Results
file
files Cloud

Fatigue Manager Upload Download

Model SE
to Bladed
desc SE
Load cases
wave Logs SE SE
Template loads desc wave
input files

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Cloud – superelement generation workflow (2/3)

Cloud

Bladed Batch Upload Download

from Sesam Model

to Sesam
Results
Results
Results
Results
Wind SE
SE SE
Cont. interface
desc wave
dll loads

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Cloud – superelement generation workflow (3/3)

Results
Results
Input Results
Input Results
file
files Cloud

Fatigue Manager Upload Download

from Bladed
Model Post-
processed
SE Load cases
results
interface Logs
Template
loads
input files

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Sesam Insight – share, collaborate and explore results in the Cloud

Visualize fatigue and code check results

and drill down for detailed investigation and verification

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Superelement redesign workflow in the cloud

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Cloud – redesign workflow

previous results Results

Results
Input Results
Input Results
Results file
Results
Results
files Cloud
Results
Framework

Fatigue Manager Upload Download

Post-
Load cases
processed
Template results
Logs
input file
Framework

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What’s new in Sesam for offshore wind?

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Recent and upcoming enhancements for fixed offshore wind

GeniE 7.10 (released October 2018)

▪ Include external (superelement) matrices and loads
– To include e.g. transition piece, tubular joints,
suction buckets, etc. from external software into
Sesam model

GeniE 7.11 (to be released early 2019)

▪ Improvements to Jscript commands
– Streamlining preliminary support structure design
▪ Zero-length spring between jacket and prescribed
support point
– To include soil spring effect in earthquake analysis
in time domain

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Recent and upcoming enhancements for fixed offshore wind

Functions for large diameter monopiles

Wajac 7.4 (planned for first half 2019)

▪ MacCamy-Fuchs in time domain for large diameter
monopiles

Splice 7.6 (planned for first half 2019)

▪ Additional springs can be included to allow to use findings of
the PISA project, required for large diameter monopiles

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Recent and upcoming enhancements for fixed offshore wind

Fatigue Manager 4.0 (September 2018)

▪ New Sesam cloud compute service

Fatigue Manager 4.1 (December 2018)

▪ Include seismic accelerations in time domain
▪ Re-download results from cloud
▪ Redesign in cloud using existing results

Fatigue Manager 4.2 (February 2019)

▪ Superelement interface for VTS/Flex5 (MHI Vestas)
▪ ULS results aggregation over load cases
▪ Generate seismic superelement files
▪ Faster cloud compute

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What’s new in Bladed 4.9 for offshore wind?

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Bladed Automation API

Project API

Load project
Edit & validate parameters

Batch API
Add to batch

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Damping on support structure natural modes (1/2)

• Craig Bampton modes

• Damping specified for each body

• How to ensure equivalent

damping?

• Industry standard: tuning of

damping required

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Damping on support structure natural modes (2/2)

• Natural modes the same for

superelement and integrated

• Specify damping on natural

modes & back-calculate
component damping

• Equivalent damping for

superelement and integrated
models

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Dynamic non-linear foundation PY model (1/2)

▪ Non-linear foundation loads now included in dynamic simulation

– previously only linear part included in dynamics

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Dynamic non-linear foundation PY model (2/2)

▪ Pile loads more accurately resolved

(FE model)

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Customer stories

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Highlighted customer: Offshore Design Engineering (UK)
Highlighted projects (per August 2018):

Project Location Description Type

In the past, when running time domain OWF

• Development for 100+ WTG units of 8-10 MW Jacket /
Far East • Conceptual / Basic engineering of WTG jacket foundations Monopile /
analysis for offshore wind, I could look at my development
commenced GBS

screen for several days. With Sesam the Neart Na

Gaoithe, Firth UK
• Concept design of a pre-piled 4-legged WTG jacket in conjunction
Jacket
analysis can be run on the cloud overnight. of Forth
with a major international EPCI contractor (confidential).

• Technical and commercial review of ongoing project development for

Due Diligence Taiwan potential acquisition Jacket
Wangwen Zhao • Provision of alternative jacketed WTG foundation design
Chief Structural Engineer at Offshore Design Engineering • Conceptual engineering / technical services
OWF Jacket /
Far East • 60-65x 8 MW turbines in 37-60m water depth
development GBS
• Evaluation of WTG foundation options

Hai Long 2 and

• Concept design and Basic Design of 4-leg jacket WTG foundations
Hai Long 3 Taiwan Jacket
• Concept design of Offshore substation jackets and topsides
OWF sites
• Engineering Services Framework Agreement for OWF engineering Various
Various Global and project management support, including Owners Engineer and Foundatio
FEED works as required n types

• Commercial and engineering consultancy to bring a deep-water WTG

Articulated foundation concept to market
Wind Column • FEED of WTG foundation with gravity base incorporating articulation Articulated
WTG UK and across water depths of 75-125m Wind
foundation • Installation by float out and ballasting down to gravity base Column
(AWC) minimises offshore marine operational costs
• Tank tests, 8 MW turbine, Full scale UK demonstrator project

• Monopile FEED and foundation selection and technical support during

CVA process Monopile /
Icebreaker
USA • Subsequent acquisition by Fred Olsen Renewables Ltd (FOR), Mono
OWF
requested replacement of monopile with FOR Universal Foundation bucket
ODE patented transition piece on jacket in Autocad (left) and Sesam (right) monopile suction bucket design

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Summary

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Why choose DNV GL’s cloud solution for offshore wind structures?

1. Bladed and Sesam combined are well-interfaced tools that

enable efficient model, load and result exchange for the
two main offshore wind industry workflows

2. DNV GL provides a secure offshore wind design cloud

offering that allows the user to achieve large efficiency
gains

3. Further design optimization within the same time available

leads to reduced Cost of Energy

4. DNV GL offers both Sesam and Bladed

a. Coordinated development of Sesam and Bladed
b. Shared training offering for Sesam, Bladed and theory

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Q&A

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