Performance Research on Tension Leg Platform of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

Abstract:

Platform structure is the basic guarantee for safety operation of offshore wind turbine. Based on the boundary element method and combined with multi-body dynamics, analyzing motion response and wave force mechanism to the platform structure, and obtained the dynamic response and the wave force change of the platform structures in time domain, last analyzes the motion response and wave force change of tension leg platform in surge, sway and heave also roll, pitch and yaw direction. The results show that the maximum response of sway and the minimum response of surge have the same direction, it is the same with the maximum response of pitch and the minimum response of roll ; Motion responses of heave and yaw change not as acutely as other four directions ; In time-domain variation range, motion response of surge, heave and pitch change acutely, while motion responses of sway, roll and yaw change slightly. Wave force focus mostly in heave and pitch direction. The results is high reference value on offshore tension leg platform structural design and optimization.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 724-725)
• Pages: 645-648
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.724-725.645
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Yue Wen Gao, Chun Li, Xin Cheng
• Keywords: Motion Response, Offshore Wind Turbine, Tension Leg Platform, Wave Force

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