Sammendrag
The Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs)
based on semi-submersible floaters constitute a popular choice
in most markets due to their installation being flexible and in
need of low infrastructural requirements. A simple and robust
three-legged semi-submersible floater for FOWTs, the OOSTAR
wind floater, has been introduced and it can be anchored
to the seabed with steel chain mooring lines or hybrid mooring
lines - a combination of chains and synthetic fiber ropes. The
fiber rope mooring lines present a number of advantages thus
leading to a lighter and less costly mooring system. These
lines are important for the FOWT’s integrity as their loss can
lead to the change of the floater’s position, a damaged power
cable, a possible collision with other infrastructure and high
maintenance costs. This why an early detection of damages in
the mooring system is crucial. In this study, damage detection in
the main part of fiber rope mooring lines of semi-submersible
based FOWTs is investigated for the first time. In particular, the
OO-STAR floater based FOWT is considered. Two Statistical
Time Series based detection methods, the Multiple Model-
AutoRegressive (MM-AR) method and the Functional Model
Based Method (FMBM) are used and compared. The MM-AR
is based on multiple AR models whereas the FMBM on a single
Functional Model, for the description of the healthy FOWT’s
dynamics under varying environmental conditions. The results
based on seven healthy and eight damage cases under varying
wind speed and wave height show that the two methods are
able to achieve damage detection in fiber rope mooring lines
without any false alarm or missed damage despite of damages
having small effects on the FOWT’s dynamics and the fiber
ropes presenting a non-linear behaviour.
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