TY - CONF A1 - Ratkovac, Mirjana A1 - Baeßler, Matthias T1 - Perspectives on Wind and Wave Load Reconstruction from SHM Data for Offshore Wind Turbines N2 - As many wind turbines approach the end of their design lifetime, from a technical point of view, comprehensive fatigue analysis of all critical parts is necessary to decide what comes after – continued operation, repowering, or decommissioning. Typically, it is a two-stage evaluation process consisting of a physical inspection of the structure and an analytical part to compare the design and actually experienced loading conditions. Structural health monitoring helps to reduce the uncertainties in the estimations by providing insight into deviations between the designed and the built structure. Furthermore, it allows the evaluation of the consumed fatigue lifetime by analyzing the strain measurements that mirror the actual structural response to experienced environmental and operational conditions. However, the measurement values are limited to a sparse number of instrumented spots on the structure, and further extrapolation to the non-instrumented (critical) sections is required to perform a complete fatigue assessment. One known approach is the external force reconstruction, which has only scarcely been considered for application in offshore wind turbines. In order to extend the previously developed thrust force reconstruction framework, this work discusses the possibilities and challenges of wind and wave loading reconstruction in offshore wind turbine support structures. T2 - 4th International Conference on Health Monitoring of Civil & Maritime Structures (HeaMES 2023) CY - Online meeting DA - 12.06.2023 KW - Wind turbines KW - Force reconstruction KW - Structural Health Monitoring PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57687 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thöns, Sebastian A1 - Rohrmann, Rolf A1 - Rücker, Werner A1 - Faber, M.H. T1 - Bewertung der Ermüdungsfestigkeit von Baustrukturen in Offshore-Windenergie-Anlagen N2 - Das Bauwerk einer Windenergieanlage dient der Sicherstellung der Energieproduktion. Eine entsprechende Zuverlässigkeit der Struktur und deren permanente Bewertung und Unterhaltung ist dazu notwendig. In diesem Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten der Bewertung des für die Struktur wichtigen Schädigungsmechanismus Ermüdung sowie dessen Überwachung in Zusammenhang mit Schädigungsindikatoren aufgezeigt. Dabei wird auf strukturmechanische, werkstoffmechanische und probabilistische Modelle sowie auf Messdaten eines Prototyps einer OWEA zurückgegriffen. Ausgehend von der gesamtdynamischen Berechnung wird die Zuverlässigkeit gemäß der Auslegung für den Schädigungsmechanismus Ermüdung durch ein Wöhlerlinienmodell berechnet. Damit werden ermüdungssensible Komponenten der Struktur identifiziert. Schädigungsindikatoren zur Überwachung der Ermüdungsfestigkeit werden auf Grundlage schädigungs-äquivalenter Dehnungen vorgestellt. Fatigue assessment of support structures for offshore wind energy converters. The structure of wind energy converters secures a reliable energy production. Hence an adequate reliability of the structure and additionally permanent assessment and maintenance is required. Within this paper methods for the assessment of the important damage mechanism fatigue in combination with monitoring of the fatigue reliability utilizing damage indicators are proposed. These methods comprise structural system, material degradation and probabilistic models as well as monitoring data of an offshore wind energy converter prototype. The structural reliability of the structure as designed is calculated based on an overall dynamic analysis using a SN-approach. Herewith fatigue sensitive components are identified. Damage indicators for monitoring the fatigue reliability based on damage equivalent strains are presented. KW - Bewertung KW - Offshore-Windenergie KW - Ermüdung KW - Strukturspannungskonzept KW - Zuverlässigkeit KW - Schadensindikatoren KW - Integrated Monitoring System KW - Damage Identification KW - Load Monitoring KW - Wind turbines PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/stab.200810076 SN - 0038-9145 SN - 1437-1049 SN - 0932-6375 VL - 77 IS - 9 SP - 630 EP - 638 PB - Ernst CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-17977 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rohrmann, Rolf A1 - Rücker, Werner A1 - Thöns, Sebastian T1 - Integrated Monitoring Systems for Offshore Wind Turbines T2 - 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring CY - Stanford, USA DA - 2007-09-11 KW - Integrated Monitoring System KW - Damage Identification KW - Load Monitoring KW - Wind turbines PY - 2007 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-16280 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rohrmann, Rolf A1 - Rücker, Werner A1 - Bäumer, Stephan T1 - Dynamic investigations at offshore wind turbines T2 - EVACES'07 - Experimental vibration analysis for civil engineering structures CY - Porto, Portugal DA - 2007-10-24 KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - Damage Identification KW - Wind turbines PY - 2007 SN - 978-972-752-095-4 SP - 965 EP - 976 AN - OPUS4-16278 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Habel, Wolfgang A1 - Gutmann, Toivo A1 - Schram, C. T1 - Fiber Bragg grating sensors for monitoring of wind turbine blades N2 - Fiber Bragg grating sensor arrays can be used to monitor the mechanical behavior of rotor blades of wind turbines. In order to investigate how stable and reliably work such sensors, different fiber Bragg gratings were embedded into textile-reinforced composite. Long-term temperature and tensile (fatigue) tests have been carried out with composite structure specimens. This paper reports on selected results of the tests and discusses important reliability aspects with regard to the fiber design and the fiber material. T2 - 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors CY - Bruges, Belgium DA - 2005-05-23 KW - Fiber Bragg grating sensors KW - Rotor blades KW - Wind turbines KW - Strain monitoring PY - 2005 SN - 0-8194-5855-4 VL - 5855 IS - Part 2/2 SP - 1036 EP - 1039 PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham AN - OPUS4-7490 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -