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This internal home page is mainly dedicated to working documents of the RECOFF project not yet fit for publication.

 

Contents

Papers
Minutes of meetings
Progress Reports and Final Report
Documents
Links to the MT1 and MT1-WG03 home pages



Papers

 

 

Calibration of Partial Safety Factors for Extreme Loads on Wind Turbines, Oral Presentation at EWEC 2003

 

Partial Safety Factors and Characteristic Values for Combined Extreme Wind and Wave Load Effects, Special Topic Conference, TU Delft 2004

 

 

 



Minutes of meetings

 

Meeting 1: The kick-off meeting, 5-6 February 2001, Risø, Denmark.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 2: 22 June 2001, Risø.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 3: 7-8 January 2002, Athens, Greece.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 4: 10-11 October 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 5: 24-25 February 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 6: 21 June 2003, Madrid, Spain.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 7: 23-24 October 2003, Bristol, UK.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 8: 29-30 January 2004, Hamburg, Germany.

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 9: 21-22 June 2004, Roskilde, Denmark

Minutes of the meeting

 

Meeting 10: 19-20 August 2004,  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Minutes of the meeting

 

 



Progress Reports and Final Report

 

1st 12 monthly progress report
2nd 12 monthly progress report
3rd 12 monthly progress report

Final technical report

 



Documents

 

Below are the RECOFF documents listed and organised by subject. The number in the second column refers to the original working numbering applied in the project. The numbering may be useful when contacting project partners, and because some references are made by number. Immediately below follow links to each subject. After that come links for each original RECOFF document number.


      Subject:

1 Existing Standards
2 External Conditions

3 Analysis Methods and Design Load Cases

4 Structural Reliability Methods and Safety Factor Calibration

5 Structural integrity

6 Operation and maintenance

7 Presentations and Miscellaneous

8 Documents not funded by the RECOFF project but presented at meetings

 

RECOFF doc. no.:

2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 11a, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15a, 16, 16a, 17, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90

 

1 Existing Standards

  
Title No.
1.1 List of rules and regulations for offshore wind turbines 4
1.2 Relevant British Standards 9

2 External Conditions

  
Title No.
2.1 Deliverable D1, External conditions, state of the art of existing regulations. 26
2.2 Deliverable D2: Guidelines for identifying, measuring and modelling of external conditions 67
2.3 Re-calculation of std(U) 56
2.4 Recommendations for design of offshore wind turbines External Conditions, A paper 82

3 Analysis Methods and Design Load Cases

  
Title No.
3.1 Wind and wave misalignment effect on fatigue loading 11
3.2 Wind and wave misalignment effect on fatigue loading (in continuation of document 11) 11a
3.3 Tidal level effects on support structure loading 12
3.4 Mean Water Depth and Support Structure Stiffness Effects on Support Structure Loading 13
3.5 Tidal current effects on support structure loading 14
3.6 Fatigue Load Parametric Studies; Wave Effects and Simulation Length requirements 15
3.7 Simulation Length Requirements for Offshore Fatigue Load Calculations (in continuation of document 15) 15a
3.8 'Lumping' of Fatigue Load Cases 16
3.9 'Lumping' of Fatigue Load Cases (in continuation of document 16) 16a
3.10 Deliverable D3, Collated sensitivity studies 27
3.11 Extrapolation Including Wave Loads; Replacing the Distribution of HS by a Suitable Percentile 19
3.12 The Influence of the Dependency of Mean Wind Speeds on the Extreme Response of Wind Turbines in the Operational Range 40
3.13 Extreme Response During Operation; Comparing the use of an extreme turbulence model and proper extrapolation 85
3.14 Investigation into IEC Offshore draft standard Design Load Case (DLC) 1.1 59
3.15 Deliverables D4 & D5:Collated Sensitivity Studies II: focus on draft load cases. 70
3.16 Draft IEC 61400-3, Annex C, (informative), Shallow water hydrodynamics and breaking waves 35
3.17 Draft Annex C for draft standard prepared by IEC-TC88-WG03. Based on IEC-TC88-WG03 document 10160 64
3.18 Draft Annex D for draft standard prepared by IEC-TC88-WG03 63
3.19 Additional loads, boat impact; Other maintenance loads 69
3.20 Spatially average of turbulence intensity inside large wind turbine arrays, presented at 2003 OWEMES 68
3.21 Presentation of the DLC table proposed for the IEC 61400-3 standard 72
3.22 Effect of Waves On Ultimate Loads Produced by IEC load cases DLC 1.4 & 1.5 60
3.23 Study of DLC 1.4 and DLC 1.5, background document for document no. 60 62
3.24 Approximate Maximum Value Distribution for Narrow Banded Gaussian Processes with Linearly Varying Mean Value 84
3.25 Peak Factors for the Sum Process of two Independent Stationary Gaussian Processes, Some Analytical Results 58
3.26 Derivation of tower top acceleration due to hydrodynamic loading 61
3.27 Approximate tower top acceleration 42
3.28 Frequency Domain Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines 81
3.29 Deliverables D4 & D5:Verification Simulations of DLC 1.2 and 6.1 a,b,c 90
3.30 HAWC Load Simulation of Generic 5MW Offshore Wind Turbine Model 87
3.31 Final report from CRESS on test calculations 88

4 Structural Reliability Methods and Safety Factor Calibration

  
Title No.
4.1 Deliverable D9: Partial Safety Factors for Extreme Load Effects in Wind Turbines. 6
4.2 Note: updated safety level evaluations relative to the background document for Partial Safety Factors in the 3rd Ed. of IEC 61400-1: Wind Turbine Generator Systems: Safety Requirements 77
4.3 Deliverable D7: Partial Safety Factors and Characteristic Values for Combined Extreme Wind and Wave Load Effects, an extended version. 71
4.4 Load Combination in a Storm Event 38
4.5 Storm Profiles for Wind Loads 89
4.6 Deliverable D6: Structural reliability methods applicable for offshore wind turbines, a short review 73
4.7 Examples of Fatigue Lifetime and Reliability Evaluation of Larger Wind Turbine Components (2003) 25
4.8 The accuracy of wind turbine design codes derived from VEWTDC results 17

5 Structural integrity

  
Title No.
5.1 Corrosion Protection for Offshore Wind Turbines 34
5.2 Deliverable D8: Comparison of international regulations with regard to the achieved bearing capacity of structural members. 24
5.3 Review of existing design methods using analytical and numerical tools for integrated design procedures for offshore turbines 23
5.4 Probable inconsistency load case 6.1 30
5.5 On the calculation of combined wind and wave loads (example DLC 6.1) 33
5.6 Combined Characteristic Extreme Loads 86
5.7 Memo on The Algorithm Behind DLC 6.1 54
5.8 Memo Concerning DLC 6.1 57
5.9 Transformation of Climate Data Between Different Reference Time Periods 55
5.10 Calculation methods for DLC6.x, discussion note 65
5.11 Design of Concrete Structures for Offshore Wind Turbines, a paper 50

6 Operation and maintenance

  
Title No.
6.1 Labour Safety and Health and Safety 28
6.2 Optimisation of the O&M costs to lower the energy costs 74
6.3 Deliverable D10:Proposal for standardisation/interface for data-collection 75

7 Presentations and Miscellaneous

  
Title No.
7.1 Offshore certification (2001) 5
7.2 “Load Analysis and Certification of Offshore Wind Turbines” K. Argyriadis, S. Schwartz, EWEC 2003. 31
7.3 An offshore wind turbine model, Proc. of EWEC 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark July 2001 2
7.4 Wind conditions for offshore wind turbine design, RECOFF, comparison of Standards and Regulations, 3rd IEA experts meeting on wind conditions for turbine design 32
7.5 Response Extrapolation for Offshore Wind Turbines, Poster at EWEC 2003 43
7.6 Response Extrapolation for Offshore Wind Turbines, The poster corresponding to document no. 43 66
7.7 Safety Factors and Model Uncertainty, IEA Annex 11, 2002 44
7.8 Calibration of Partial Safety Factors for Extreme Loads on Wind Turbines, Oral Presentation at EWEC 2003 41
7.9 Udvikling indenfor offshore standardisering og relateret udviklingsarbejde , PowerPoint presentation at Dansk Vindenergi's konference, 2003, in Danish 45
7.10 Fatigue and extreme loads in wind farm clusters - and need for measurements, PowerPoint presentation at ENDOW workshop, Risø March 7-8 2002 46
7.11 Background for ”effective” turbulence model 47
7.12 Extrapolation of extreme wind loads during normal operation, poster at EWEC 2003 48
7.13 Vindlaster på offshorevindmøller, presented at Dansk Vandteknisk Selskabs Møde i Nysted, 2003, in Danish 49
7.14 Wave Spectrums and Forces For the Design Load Cases 1.2 & 6.1a,b,c of the 61400-3 IEC Standard 51
7.15 Partial Safety Factors and Characteristic Values for Combined Extreme Wind and Wave Load Effects, Special Topic Conference, TU Delft 2004 37
7.16 Partial Safety Factors and Characteristic Values for Combined Extreme Wind and Wave Load Effects, power point presentation at EAWE Special Topic Conference, TU Delft, 19-21 April. 2004 52
7.17 Partial Safety Factors and Characteristic Values for Combined Extreme Wind and Wave Load Effects, an extention of document no. 52 53
7.18 Extreme structural loads at non-extreme mean wind speeds 80
7.19 Extreme structural loads at non-extreme mean wind speeds, Poster 83

8 Documents not funded by the RECOFF project but presented at meetings

  
Title No.
8.1 Modelling of severe joint wave and wind climates 29
8.2 Optimised and Balanced Structural and System Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbines, An account. 76




Links to the MT1 and WG03 homepages

 

The homepage of MT1 (the former MT14) under the IEC TC88:

 

     User ID:     iectc88-mt14

     Password: windpower

 

     Go to the MT1 home page

The homepage of WG3 under the IEC TC88:

     User ID:     iectc88-wg3

     Password: WetWind  (NB: case sensitive, note the W's)

 

     Go to the WG3 home page 


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