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Effect of Foundation Flexibility of Offshore Wind Turbine on Force and Movement at Monopile Head

해상풍력발전기 기초구조물의 강성이 모노파일 두부의 부재력 및 변위에 미치는 영향

Sungmoon Jung1
,
Sung-Ryul Kim2*
,
Juhyung Lee3
,
Chi Hung Le4
정 성문1
,
김 성렬2*
,
이 주형3
,
이 치흥4
1Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering, Florida A&M
2Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-A University
3Research Fellow, Geotechnical Engineering Research Division, KICT
4Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-A University
*교신저자. *Corresponding Author. 
30 December 2014. pp. 21-31
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Abstract

Recently, the research on renewable energy against depletion of fossil fuel have been actively carried out in the world. Especially, offshore wind turbines are very economical and innovative technology. However, offshore wind turbines experience large base moments due to the wind and wave loading, so the monopile with large diameter needs to be applied. For the economical design of the large diameter pile, it is important to consider the flexibility of the foundation to estimate the maximum moment accurately, based on studies conducted so far. In this paper, the foundation was modeled using the finite element method in order to better describe the large diameter effect of a monopile and the results were compared with those of p-y method. For the examples studied in this paper, the change in maximum moment was insignificant, but the maximum tilt angle from the finite element method was over 14% larger than that of p-y method. Therefore, the finite element approach is recommended to model the flexibility effect of the pile when large tilt angles may cause serviceability issues.

Keywords
Offshore wind turbine
Foundation
Coupled spring model
Natural frequency
Foundation flexibility

최근 전 세계적으로 화석연료 고갈에 대비하여 신재생에너지에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중에 있다. 특히, 해상풍력발전기는 경제성 측면에서 매우 뛰어난 기술로 알려져 있다. 그런데, 해상 풍력발전기는 바람과 풍력 하중 때문에 저면에 큰 모멘트가 발생하므로 대구경 모노파일을 적용하는 것이 필요하다. 이 때, 대구경 말뚝을 경제적으로 설계하려면 기초구조물의 강성이 타워의 최대 모멘트 값에 미치는 영향을 고려하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 기초구조물 강성을 산정할 때 모노파일의 대구경 효과를 정밀히 고려하기 위하여 3차원 유한요소해석을 수행하고, 기존의 p-y 해석법에 의한 강성산정 결과와 비교하였다. 본 연구에 적용한 예제의 해석결과, 기초구조물의 강성 산정방법에 따른 말뚝두부 최대 모멘트 값의 변화는 크지 않았지만 말뚝두부 최대 기울어짐 각의 경우 유한요소해석법이 p-y 해석법에 비하여 14% 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러므로, 기울어짐 각이 성능수준에 영향을 미치는 경우 유한요소해석법을 적용하여 기초강성 효과를 정밀하게 고려하는 것이 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

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  • Publisher :Korean Geosythetics Society
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국지반신소재학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국지반신소재학회 논문집
  • Volume : 13
  • No :4
  • Pages :21-31
  • Received Date : 2014-08-26
  • Revised Date : 2014-10-29
  • Accepted Date : 2014-10-30
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.12814/jkgss.2014.13.4.021
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