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Prediction of remaining fatigue life of welded joints in wind turbine support structures considering strain measurement and a joint distribution of oceanographic data
Mai, Anh Quang; Morato Dominguez, Pablo Gabriel; Rigo, Philippe
2019In Marine Structures, 66, p. 307-322
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Keywords :
fatigue; remaining life; reliability; wind turbines; measurement; welded joints; support structures; offshore; inspection; monitoring; SCADA; measured strain
Abstract :
[en] Reassessing the remaining fatigue life of the wind turbine support structures becomes more and more crucial for operation, maintenance, and life extension when they are reaching the end of their design service life. By using measured oceanographic and strain data, each year, remaining fatigue life can be updated to adapt the operation to real loading conditions. Previous works have not put attention to address the complexity of offshore loading combinations and as-constructed state of the structure in estimating structural responses for fatigue behaviour to stochastically predict the remaining fatigue life. The present paper links the oceanographic data to fatigue damage by using measured strain, and uses the Bayesian approach to update the joint distribution of the oceanographic data. Consequently, the failure probability of the support structure can be updated and so the predicted fatigue life. The year-to-year variation of the 10-min mean wind speed, the unrepresentativeness of measured strain, the measurement uncertainty, and corrosion are considered together with uncertainties in Miner′s rule and S–N curves. The present research shows that the real oceanographic data can be used to adjust the predicted remaining fatigue life and eventually give decision support for the wind turbine operation.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Mai, Anh Quang ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Constructions hydrauliques et navales
Morato Dominguez, Pablo Gabriel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > ANAST (Systèmes de transport et constructions navales)
Rigo, Philippe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Constructions hydrauliques et navales
Language :
English
Title :
Prediction of remaining fatigue life of welded joints in wind turbine support structures considering strain measurement and a joint distribution of oceanographic data
Publication date :
July 2019
Journal title :
Marine Structures
ISSN :
0951-8339
Publisher :
Elsevier, Netherlands
Volume :
66
Pages :
307-322
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles. Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - F.R.S.-FNRS
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