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Experimental comparison of dynamic responses of a tension moored floating wind turbine platform with and without spring dampers
Date Issued
2015-07-09
Date Available
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Abstract
The offshore wind industry is rapidly maturing and is now expanding to more extreme environments in deeper water and farther from shore. To date fixed foundation types (i.e. monopoles, jackets) have been primarily used but become uneconomical in water depths greater than 50m. Floating foundations have more complex dynamics but at the moment no design has reached commercialization, although a number of devices are being tested at prototype stage. The development of concepts is carried out through physical model testing of scaled devices such that to better understand the dynamics of the system and validate numerical models. This paper investigates the testing of a scale model of a tension moored wind turbine at two different scales and in the presence and absence of a spring damper controlling its dynamic response. The models were tested under combined wave and wind thrust loading conditions. The analysis compares the motions of the platform at different scales and structural conditions through RAO, testing a mooring spring damper for load reductions.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Other Sponsorship
MARINET
who funded this research.
Marine Research Energy Ireland (MaREI)
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Journal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
628
Issue
1
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1742-6588
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