Reliability-Based Serviceability Limit State Design of a Jacket Substructure for an Offshore Wind Turbine

The development of a structurally optimized foundation design has become one of the main research objectives for offshore wind turbines (OWTs). The design process should be carried out in a probabilistic way due to the uncertainties involved, such as using parametric uncertainties regarding material...

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Main Authors: Jianhua Zhang, Won-Hee Kang, Ke Sun, Fushun Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-07-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/14/2751