Abstract
Jacket structures are still at the early stage of their development for use in the offshore wind industry. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the soil-structure interaction on the response of an offshore wind turbine with a jacket-type foundation. For this purpose, two different models of flexible foundation-the p-y model and the p-y model considering pile groups effect-are employed to compare the dynamic responses with the fixed-base model. The modal analysis and the coupled dynamic analysis are carried out under deterministic and stochastic conditions. The influence of the soil-structure interaction on the response of the jacket foundation predicts that the flexible foundation model is necessary to estimate the loads of the offshore wind turbine structure well. It is suggested that during fatigue analysis the pile group effect should be considered for the jacket foundation.
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Abbreviations
- P d :
-
dynamic soil reaction at depth h, (N/m)
- P s :
-
static soil reaction obtained from the static p-y curve at depth h, (N/m)
- a 0 :
-
dimensionless frequency (a 0 = ωy/V s )
- ω :
-
frequency of loading, (rad/s)
- D :
-
pile diameter, (m)
- U rel :
-
the relative wind velocity
- Hs :
-
the significant wave height
- u s :
-
the structure velocity
- P:
-
the soil reaction at the same depth for a single pile
- D :
-
the average pile diameter from surface to depth h
- y :
-
lateral pile deflection at depth h, (m)
- V s :
-
shear wave velocity of the soil layer, (m/s) α, β, κ and n are constants that depend on the soil type
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Shi, W., Park, H.C., Chung, C.W. et al. Soil-structure interaction on the response of jacket-type offshore wind turbine. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 2, 139–148 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-015-0018-7
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