This book pursues the ambitious goal of combining floating wind turbine design optimization and reliability assessment, which has in fact not been done before. The topic is organized into a series of very ambitious objectives, which start with an initial state-of-the-art review, followed by the development of high-fidelity frameworks for a disruptive way to design next generation floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) support structures. The development of a verified aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled numerical model of dynamics for FOWTs and a holistic framework for automated simulation and optimization of FOWT systems, which is later used for the coupling of design optimization with reliability assessment of FOWT systems in a computationally and time-efficient manner, has been an aim of many groups internationally towards implementing a performance-based/goal-setting approach in the design of complex engineering systems. The outcomes of this work quantify the benefits of an optimaldesign with a lower mass while fulfilling design constraints. Illustrating that comprehensive design methods can be combined with reliability analysis and optimization algorithms towards an integrated reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) can benefit not only the offshore wind energy industry but also other applications such as, among others, civil infrastructure, aerospace, and automotive engineering.
By:
Mareike Leimeister
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Weight: 682g
ISBN: 9783030968885
ISBN 10: 303096888X
Series: Springer Theses
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 02 January 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction.- Review of Reliability-Based Risk Analysis Methods Used in the Offshore Wind Industry.- Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Systems.- Modeling, Automated Simulation, and Optimization.- Design Optimization of FloatingWind Turbine Support Structures.- Reliability-Based Design Optimization of a Spar-Type FloatingWind Turbine Support Structure.- Discussion.- Conclusions.
