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Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Fatigue damage assessment of fixed offshore wind turbine tripod support structures”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 101, pp. 518-528

The objective of this work is to carry out a fatigue damage assessment of a fixed offshore wind turbine support structure due to combined wave and wind - induced loading. Considering the operational mode of the wind turbine 3 loading conditions are identified and for each loading condition 4 critical regions located in different zones of the supporting structure are studied. The stress transfer function is obtained by carrying out dynamic finite element analysis in the frequency domain. A wave scatter diagram of the North Atlantic is used in order to account for the environmental effects. The stress transfer function is formulated such that a sufficient number of frequencies can be used in the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform with random phase angles in order to obtain the stress time histories. An up-to- date rainflow cycle counting method is adopted to count the total number of cycles related to stress range bins. The S-N approach is employed to estimate fatigue damage.

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