Dynamic Simulation on Collision Between Ship and Offshore Wind Turbine

• Published in: Transactions of Tianjin University 2014, Vol.20 (1), p.1-6
• Main Author: 丁红岩 朱奇 张浦阳
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: ABAQUS; Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Mechanical Engineering; multidisciplinary; Science; 动力学仿真; 桶形基础; 海上; 船舶碰撞; 过渡结构; 风力发电机组; 风力涡轮机
• ISSN: 1006-4982; 1995-8196
• DOI: 10.1007/s12209-014-2133-x

By using ABAQUS/Explicit, the dynamic process of an offshore wind turbine（OWT） stricken by a ship of 5000DWT in the front direction is simulated. The OWT is located on a large-scale prestressing bucket foundation constructed by an integrated installation technique. According to the simulation results, under the ship collision, a cer-tain range of plastic zone appears within a local area of arc transition structure of the bucket foundation, and the con-crete plastic zone is seriously damaged. As the stress level of OWT tower is relatively low, the OWT tower is less af-fected. A great inertial force is generated at the top of the OWT tower as the mass of nacelle and blades is up to 400 t. The displacement of the tower is in the opposite direction of the ship collision at the end of 1 s under the action of iner-tial force. There is only a minor damage in the ship bow. Most of the kinetic energy is transformed into the plastic dissipation and absorbed by the arc transition structure of bucket foundation.