A damage detection and location scheme for offshore wind turbine jacket structures based on global modal properties
A damage detection and location scheme for offshore wind turbine jacket structures based on global modal properties
Structural failures of offshore wind turbine substructures might be less likely than failures of other equipment of the wind turbine generator, but they pose a high risk due to the possibility of catastrophic consequences. Significant costs are linked to offshore operations like inspections and maintenance, thus remote monitoring shows promise for cost-efficient structural integrity management. This work is aimed to investigate the feasibility of a two-level detection, in terms of anomaly identification and location, in the jacket structure of an offshore wind turbine. A monitoring scheme is suggested by basing the detection on a database of simulated modal properties of the structure for different failure scenarios. The detection model identifies the correct anomaly based on three types of modal indicators, namely natural frequency, the modal assurance criterion between mode shapes, and the modal flexibility variation. The supervised Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis is applied to transform the modal indicators to maximise the separability of several scenarios. A Fuzzy clustering algorithm is then trained to predict the membership of new data to each of the scenarios in the database. In a case study, extreme scour phenomena and jacket members’ integrity loss are simulated, together with variations of the structural dynamics for environmental and operating conditions. Cross-validation is used to select the best hyperparameters, and the effectiveness of the clustering is validated with slight variations of the environmental conditions. The results prove that it is feasible to detect and locate the simulated scenarios via the global monitoring
of an offshore wind jacket structure.
Cevasco, Debora
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Tautz-Weinert, Jannis
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Richmond, Mark
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Sobey, Adam
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Kolios, Athanasios
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1 June 2022
Cevasco, Debora
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Tautz-Weinert, Jannis
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Richmond, Mark
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Sobey, Adam
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Kolios, Athanasios
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Cevasco, Debora, Tautz-Weinert, Jannis, Richmond, Mark, Sobey, Adam and Kolios, Athanasios
(2022)
A damage detection and location scheme for offshore wind turbine jacket structures based on global modal properties.
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 8.
(doi:10.1115/1.4053659).
Abstract
Structural failures of offshore wind turbine substructures might be less likely than failures of other equipment of the wind turbine generator, but they pose a high risk due to the possibility of catastrophic consequences. Significant costs are linked to offshore operations like inspections and maintenance, thus remote monitoring shows promise for cost-efficient structural integrity management. This work is aimed to investigate the feasibility of a two-level detection, in terms of anomaly identification and location, in the jacket structure of an offshore wind turbine. A monitoring scheme is suggested by basing the detection on a database of simulated modal properties of the structure for different failure scenarios. The detection model identifies the correct anomaly based on three types of modal indicators, namely natural frequency, the modal assurance criterion between mode shapes, and the modal flexibility variation. The supervised Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis is applied to transform the modal indicators to maximise the separability of several scenarios. A Fuzzy clustering algorithm is then trained to predict the membership of new data to each of the scenarios in the database. In a case study, extreme scour phenomena and jacket members’ integrity loss are simulated, together with variations of the structural dynamics for environmental and operating conditions. Cross-validation is used to select the best hyperparameters, and the effectiveness of the clustering is validated with slight variations of the environmental conditions. The results prove that it is feasible to detect and locate the simulated scenarios via the global monitoring
of an offshore wind jacket structure.
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 December 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 March 2022
Published date: 1 June 2022
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