Abstract :
[en] This paper presents some new analytical developments carried out to assess the energy dissipated
plastically at the base of an offshore wind turbine jacket impacted by a ship. The jacket components
involved in this mechanism are both the impacted leg and the rear leg, considered as
clamped at the foundation level, as well as the horizontal bottom brace considered as rigidly
fixed on the legs. The foundation system is assumed to be piles inserted into sleeves with cement
grout. The base of the jacket is divided into four zones and a kinematically admissible displacement
field is assumed for each of them. Based on plastic limit analysis, new analytical
formulations are derived to assess the resistance and the dissipated energy for each considered
area and therefore of the whole jacket base. To validate the method, full scale ship-jacket collisions
are simulated both analytically and numerically and plastic energy dissipated at the base
of the jacket is compared successfully with nonlinear finite element simulation results.
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