Fatigue reliability of wind turbines: historical perspectives, recent developments and future prospects

D Liao, SP Zhu, JAFO Correia, AMP De Jesus… - Renewable Energy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Wind, as a sustainable and affordable energy source, represents a strong alternative to
traditional energy sources. However, wind power is only one of the options, together with …

[HTML][HTML] From wind to loads: wind turbine site-specific load estimation with surrogate models trained on high-fidelity load databases

N Dimitrov, MC Kelly, A Vignaroli… - Wind Energy Science, 2018‏ - wes.copernicus.org
We define and demonstrate a procedure for quick assessment of site-specific lifetime fatigue
loads using simplified load map** functions (surrogate models), trained by means of a …

Surrogate model uncertainty in wind turbine reliability assessment

RMM Slot, JD Sørensen, B Sudret, L Svenningsen… - Renewable Energy, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Lowering the cost of wind energy entails the optimization of wind turbine material
consumption without compromising structural safety. Traditionally, wind turbines are …

On long-term fatigue damage estimation for a floating offshore wind turbine using a surrogate model

DP Liu, G Ferri, T Heo, E Marino, L Manuel - Renewable Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study is concerned with the estimation of long-term fatigue damage for a floating
offshore wind turbine. With the ultimate goal of efficient evaluation of fatigue limit states for …

Efficient fatigue damage estimation of offshore wind turbine foundation under wind-wave actions

T Li, Q Yang, X Zhang, Y Ma - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In this research, four surrogate models appropriate for nonlinear relationship prediction
including the Least Squares Support Vector Regression (LSSVR), the Kriging model, the …

Stress-cycle fatigue design with Kriging applied to offshore wind turbines

R Teixeira, M Nogal, A O'Connor, J Nichols… - International Journal of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The present paper discusses a new methodology to assess stress-cycle fatigue design
using meta-modelling. Research on its application is presented for offshore wind turbine …

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis of offshore wind turbines using a transformed kullback-leibler divergence

R Teixeira, A O'Connor, M Nogal - Structural Safety, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Characterizing uncertainty in complex systems is steadily growing as a topic of interest. One
of the efficient ways to characterize a complex system is achieved by probabilistic sensitivity …

Reliability‐based layout optimization in offshore wind energy systems

CE Clark, G Barter, K Shaler, B DuPont - Wind Energy, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Existing methods for optimizing wind array layouts typically use power or cost objectives and
rarely consider reliability‐based objectives. Component and system failure rates, however …

Impact of geotechnical uncertainty on the preliminary design of monopiles supporting offshore wind turbines

C Reale, J Tott-Buswell… - … -ASME Journal of …, 2021‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The growing demand for clean renewable energy sources and the lack of suitable
nearshore sites are moving the offshore wind industry toward develo** larger wind …

Wind Turbine damage equivalent load assessment using Gaussian process regression combining measurement and synthetic data

R Haghi, C Stagg, C Crawford - Energies, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Assessing the structural health of operational wind turbines is crucial, given their exposure
to harsh environments and the resultant impact on longevity and performance. However, this …