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Simulation of an Offshore Wind Turbine Damage Subjected to Psv Collision
Irham Afiqie Bin Hanaffee
Supervisor: Dr. Anuar Bin Abu Bakar
Bachelor of Applied Science (Maritime Technology)
School of Ocean Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
An Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) can be located close to traffic lanes of commercial
and passenger ship, which may lead to a possible collision. The work presented in this
paper aims to investigate the crushing behaviour of a monopole offshore wind turbine
when impacted by a platform supply vessel (PSV). The study also focused the
influences of various parameters like ship impact velocity, location damage and
deformability of striking platform supply vessel (PSV). The effect of the platform supply
vessel (PSV) between wind turbines interactions on the distribution of damage is
studied by modelling both structures using nonlinear numerical finite element by using
an ABAQUS EXPLICIT software. Different configuration for the offshore wind turbine
structure has been used in order to highlight the modification in behaviour induced by
changing the loading scenario. The resulting resistant force and internal energy have
been compared as well as the top tower displacement and accelerations.
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