• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2018

The Korea Offshore Wind Power (KOWP) is planning to construct offshore wind energy farms with an overall rated power of 2.5 GW in the south-western coast of the country until 2019. Various types of support structures for offshore wind turbines have been proposed in the past. Nevertheless, in South Korea, jacket structures have in general, been applied as support structures for offshore wind turbines owing to the many accumulated experiences and know-how regarding this kind of support structure. The choice of offshore structure is mainly influenced by site conditions such as seabed soil type and sea environment during installation. In installing jacket sets on the seabed, the mudmat is necessary to maintain the equilibrium of the jacket without the aid of additional devices. Hence, this study proposes the installation of skirt plates underneath the bottom frame of jackets in order to improve the installation stability of jacket structures under rougher sea conditions. To confirm the effect of skirt plates, installation stability analyses considering overturning, sliding and bearing capacity have been performed. From the results, it is shown that jacket structures with skirt plates can contribute to improving the sliding stability of the structures of new wind power farms, while providing economic benefits.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.184-192
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• 2017

The Korea Offshore Wind Power (KWOP) cooperation is planning to construct offshore wind energy farms with an overall rated power of 2.5 GW along the southwestern coast by 2019. Hitherto, various structural types of support structures for offshore wind turbines have been being proposed, but these structures have lacked economic analysis studies. Therefore, their economical superiority to existing types has been difficult to guarantee. An offshore structure with economic efficiency will have a minimum amount of mobilizing equipment and short offshore construction period because of the application of rapid installation methods. Thus, the development of a new support structure with economic efficiency is generally considered to be necessary. Accordingly, this paper proposes a newly developed and more economical jacket type for the offshore support structure. This study confirmed its structural safety and performance by conducting a structural analysis and eigenvalue analysis. The manufacturing and installation costs were then estimated. As a result, the new jacket type of offshore support structure proposed in this study significantly reduced the manufacturing and installation costs. Therefore, it is expected that the proposed jacket will contribute to reducing construction expenses for new wind power farms and invigorating wind power farm businesses.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.39.1-39.1
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• 2011

Due to less turbulence and no land limitation, offshore wind energy gets more attention than onshore. Jacket structure is regarded as a suitable solution for the water depth ranging from 30 to 80 meters. In general, joint stress concentration of jacket support structures affects their fatigue life. Nowadays, most jacket structures for offshore wind turbines have tubular X-joint between legs. In this paper, a study on X-joint stress concentration of offshore wind turbine jacket structure is performed by using 50m water depth model. Stress of X-joint on offshore environmental conditions are discussed.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.218-226
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• 2014

Since the support structure of an offshore wind turbine has to withstand severe environmental loads such as wind, wave, and seismic loads during its entire service life, the need for a robust and reliable design increases, along with the need for a cost effective design. In addition, a robust and reliable support structure contributes to the high availability of a wind turbine and low maintenance costs. From this point of view, this paper presents a design process that includes design optimization and reliability analysis. First, the jacket structure of the NREL 5-MW offshore wind turbine is optimized to minimize the weight and stresses, while satisfying the design requirements. Second, the reliability of the optimum design is evaluated and compared with that of the initial design. Although the present study results in a new optimum shape for a jacket support structure with reduced weight and increased reliability, the authors suggest that the optimum design has to be accompanied by a reliability analysis during the design process, as well as reliability based design optimization if needed.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.375-384
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• 2015

해상풍력발전의 건설이 여러 가지 환경 및 가설공법 등의 설치환경 등의 원인에 의하여 건설지점이 천해에서 심해로 이동하는 경향을 나타내고 있다. 이러한 경향 속에 해상풍력발전 지지구조물의 심해화에 따른 지지구조물에 대한 연구는 중요성이 더욱 증대될 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 Jacket 구조물에 대하여 Precast Concrete Block 및 Suction pile을 적용한 Jacket 구조물을 제안하고 이에 대하여 구조해석 및 안전성 평가를 실시하였다. 또한 제안된 구조물에 동조액체감쇠기를 적용하여 구조물 진동성능 향상을 도모하고자 하였다. 연구결과, 제안된 신형식 Jacket 구조물은 충분한 안전성을 가지고 있는 것으로 평가되었으며, 동조액체감쇠기를 적용하였을 경우, 약 5%의 진동저감 효과가 있는 것으로 검토되었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.117-134
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• 2014

It is believed that offshore wind farms may satisfy an increasing portion of the energy demand in the next years. This paper presents a comparative study of the fatigue performances of tripod and jacket steel support structures for offshore wind turbines in waters of intermediate depth (20-50 m). A reference site at a water depth of 45 m in the North Atlantic Ocean is considered. The tripod and jacket support structures are conceived according to typical current design. The fatigue behavior is assessed in the time domain under combined stochastic wind and wave loading and the results are compared in terms of a lifetime damage equivalent load.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2014

극한 해양 환경하중을 고려한 해상풍력터빈 지지구조물에 대한 신뢰성 해석을 수행하였다. 신뢰성 해석을 위한 한계상태함수는 mud-line에서 지지구조물의 동적응답으로 정의되며, 동적응답은 정적응답과 동적응답계수의 곱으로 정의된다. 동적응답계수는 설계조건에서의 동적 시간이력응답을 분석하여 구할 수 있다. 허브(Hub) 위치에 작용하는 추력은 GH_Bladed를 사용하여 계산하였으며, 정적하중으로 적용하였다. 동적응답계수는 대수정규분포, 지반물성 중 내부마찰각은 상한과 하한이 결정된 베타분포이며, 그 외 설계변수는 정규분포 확률변수로 취급되었다. mud-line 에서의 동적응답을 통해 정의된 한계상태함수에 따라 일계신뢰도법(First order reliability method, FORM)을 사용하여 해상풍력터빈 지지구조물의 신뢰도지수를 산정하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 재킷식 해상풍력터빈 지지구조물의 효과적인 건전성 모니터링을 위하여, 손상에 의한 구조물의 모드 특성 변화 및 군집신경망기법을 이용한 손상추정기법을 제안한다. 실용적 적용을 위하여 제한된 계측자료를 활용하고, 구조적으로 중요하며 손상이 발생될 확률이 큰 것으로 판단되는 중요부재를 대상으로 손상을 추정한다. 즉, 재킷식 지지구조물은 부재 개수가 많기 때문에, 모든 부재를 적절히 식별하기 위해서는 이에 상당하는 많은 수의 계측 데이터 채널 및 센서를 설치해야 한다. 이는 건전성 모니터링의 경제적 및 실용적인 측면에서 적절치 않다고 판단되며, 본 연구에서는 중요 구조부재에 대하여 제한된 계측자료를 활용하여 집중적으로 손상추정을 수행하기 위한 연구를 수행한다. 5 MW 해상풍력터빈에 적용될 수 있는 재킷식 해상풍력터빈 지지구조물을 모델링한 후, 수치 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 신경망의 훈련패턴을 생성한다. 이후, 군집신경망기법을 이용하여 중요부재에 대한 손상위치 및 손상정도를 20가지 손상경우에 대하여 추정한 결과, 모든 손상 경우에 대하여 성공적으로 손상을 판정할 수 있었으며, 군집신경망기법을 적용함으로써 추청결과의 정확성이 향상됨을 알 수 있었다. 또한 실험연구를 통하여 기법을 검증하였는데, 3가지 손상경우에 대하여 손상을 추정한 결과 합리적으로 손상을 추정할 수 있었다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.342-350
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• 2015

A seismic reliability analysis of the jacket-type support structure for an offshore wind turbine was performed. When defining the limit state function using the dynamic response of the support structure, numerous dynamic calculations should be performedin an approach like the FORM (first-order reliability method). This causes a substantial increase in the analysis cost. Therefore, in this paper, a new reliability analysis approach using the static response is used. The dynamic effect of the response is considered by introducing a new parameter called the peak response factor (PRF). The probability distribution of the PRF could be estimated using the peak value of the dynamic response. The probability distribution of the PRF was obtained for a set of ground motions. A numerical example is considered to compare the proposed approach with the conventional static-response-based approach.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.37.2-37.2
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• 2011

Nowadays, offshore wind energy experiences a rapid development because of its wind condition and no noise impact problem. Different from Europe, offshore wind is just started in Asia. More work and research are needed in Korea. In this work, a three-bladed upwind variable speed pitch controlled 5MW wind turbine on a jacket support structure is used. During the simulation, several design load cases are investigated in two different fully coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic codes. Some critical loads on the foundation are compared and analyzed.