Development and Validation of Methodologies for Structural Monitoring of Floating Wind Turbines
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 1568
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operational modal analysis; floating wind turbines; structural dynamics; structural health monitoring
Interests: data-driven structural health monitoring; structural dynamics; virtual sensing; offshore wind turbines
Interests: structural health monitoring; operational modal analysis; wind turbines; structural dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
With an increase in environmental concerns, the search for sustainable energy scenarios has been gaining more and more attention from academic research projects and industries in recent years. In particular, with the advent of floating platform solutions, the exploration of wind energy in offshore scenarios—which until very recently was confined to lower depths where bottom-fixed solutions (e.g., gravity structures and monopiles) for the overall stability of the system are used—has been successfully extended to deeper waters, which offer optimal conditions due to higher mean wind speeds and lower turbulence winds.
Although placing a wind turbine on top of a floating platform entails additional challenges for the design and operation teams, the particular dynamic nature of these complex structures also allows for the definition of new monitoring strategies that are still mostly unexplored, but which may play a very important role for the better, more efficient management and exploration of floating offshore wind farms.
This Special Issue aims not only to explore the extension and validation of conventional structural monitoring techniques to the offshore field, but also to develop new methodologies which are specially designed for these structures, with a particular focus on approaches for enhanced structural health monitoring, operational modal analysis and fatigue damage evaluation.
Dr. Francisco Pimenta
Dr. Eleonora Tronci
Dr. Sérgio Pereira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- floating wind turbines
- operational modal analysis
- structural dynamics
- structural health monitoring
- fatigue evaluation
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