Offshore Wind Support Structure Design

Dear Colleagues,

The offshore wind industry is growing quickly, but the cost of wind energy is still high. There is a need for improvement in several areas. One of them is support structure cost. This cost can be reduced if support structures are designed to be tailored to their local environment. Support structures for offshore wind turbines are highly dynamic, having to cope with combined wind and hydrodynamic loading and complex dynamic behaviour from the wind turbine. It is vital to capture the integrated effect of the wind and wave loads as well as the wind turbine control system, as this is a situation where the total loading is likely to be significantly less than the sum of the constituent loads. This Special Issue focuses on various topics related to the offshore wind support structure design including: hydrodynamics; CFD; vortex induced vibrations; fluid–structure interaction; hydroelasticity; linear and non-linear wave mechanics; buoyancy and stability; mooring systems and controls; radiated noise; structural mechanics; FEM; materials; limit state prediction; fatigue; fracture; structural health monitoring; collision and crash worthiness, degradation; standards and specifications; stochastic calculations; stochastic processes; safety and reliability; risk and limit state design; experimental approaches; instrumentation; full-scale measurements; model tests.

Dr. Mehdi Shokouhian
Guest Editor

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