TY - GEN
T1 - Reliability analysis of offshore wind turbines using copula
AU - Hu, Weifei
AU - Jiang, Zhiyu
AU - Wang, Yeqing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ASME.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Offshore structures are subject to severe environmental conditions and require high operating and maintenance costs. At the design stage of an offshore structure, it is necessary to perform load analysis and to consider representative environmental conditions characterized by statistical models. However, many available joint distribution models of the environmental parameters can only describe the correlation of these parameters in a very restricted form. The use of simple probabilistic models without correctly addressing their correlation may lead to significant bias in the reliability analysis. Here, the correlation between three offshore environmental parameters including the significant wave height, wave peak period, and mean wind speed is described by copula. The copula density functions and theoretical derivations of copula correlation parameters using actual sea state data are provided for general applications of reliability analysis of offshore structures. Hindcast data of two representative sites are used to fit the best copula. The developed copula-based joint distribution can be used for accurate reliability analysis of offshore structures considering long-term fatigue loads and extreme responses.
AB - Offshore structures are subject to severe environmental conditions and require high operating and maintenance costs. At the design stage of an offshore structure, it is necessary to perform load analysis and to consider representative environmental conditions characterized by statistical models. However, many available joint distribution models of the environmental parameters can only describe the correlation of these parameters in a very restricted form. The use of simple probabilistic models without correctly addressing their correlation may lead to significant bias in the reliability analysis. Here, the correlation between three offshore environmental parameters including the significant wave height, wave peak period, and mean wind speed is described by copula. The copula density functions and theoretical derivations of copula correlation parameters using actual sea state data are provided for general applications of reliability analysis of offshore structures. Hindcast data of two representative sites are used to fit the best copula. The developed copula-based joint distribution can be used for accurate reliability analysis of offshore structures considering long-term fatigue loads and extreme responses.
KW - Copula
KW - Correlation
KW - Offshore Wind Turbines
KW - Reliability Analysis
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U2 - 10.1115/POWER2018-7195
DO - 10.1115/POWER2018-7195
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055496330
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Power Division (Publication) POWER
BT - Fuels, Combustion, and Material Handling; Combustion Turbines Combined Cycles; Boilers and Heat Recovery Steam Generators; Virtual Plant and Cyber-Physical Systems; Plant Development and Construction; Renewable Energy Systems
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2018 Power Conference, POWER 2018, collocated with the ASME 2018 12th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2018 Nuclear Forum
Y2 - 24 June 2018 through 28 June 2018
ER -