Monitoring the Consumed Fatigue Life on Three Offshore Wind Turbines

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Abstract

Fatigue life is often a design driver for the foundations of offshore wind turbines. A continuously monitored fatigue life can thus serve an important role in deciding over wind farm inspections, repowering or lifetime extension. As such it should be an integral part of any structural health monitoring system on offshore wind turbines’ foundations.
This paper introduces the OWI-lab fatigue monitoring strategy and uses data from three turbines, equipped with (optical) strain gauges, off the Belgian coast to illustrate the impact of environmental and operational conditions on the consumption of fatigue life. The final goal of the research to achieve a farm-wide fatigue assessment using a limited number of instrumented turbines.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2015
Subtitle of host publicationSystem Reliability for Verification and Implementation
Pages2809-2816
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sep 2015
EventInternational Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring - Stanford, Palo Alto, United States
Duration: 1 Sep 20153 Sep 2015

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalo Alto
Period1/09/153/09/15

Keywords

  • Offshore wind energy
  • Fatigue
  • Structural Health Monitoring

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