Structural Integrity Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations
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Virtual or Classroom
6hr Live Sessions
Registration deadline: 15 July 2024
Custom Scheduling
Ali Mehmanparast
INCO4401
Format:
Instructor-led
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Course Objective
“This course will detail the key aspects of structural integrity that are of importance for offshore wind turbines foundations.”
Private course for team
Custom scheduling
Industry Expert
On-site or virtual
1-year access
to course material
PDH Hours qualified course
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About the course
In-Company
Live sessions
6hr Content
Custom
English
INCO4401
Offshore wind turbines operate in a harsh environment where maintenance and inspection are costly and time consuming. The corrosion and fatigue of the structure consequently represent a major challenge for both the design, and Operation and Maintenance.
In this training course participants will be taken through the techniques used in the design and maintenance of offshore wind turbines, such as fatigue design, fracture mechanics-based inspection, and defect assessment. Additionally, the impact of residual stress effects on predicting the component life will be explained. In doing this, the participants will receive a comprehensive overview of structural integrity as applied to offshore wind turbine foundations.
The course consists of 6hr of live sessions with the instructor. All training content is provided through your EngineeringTrainer account.
After the course you maintain 1-year unlimited access to the course, including any new course material. This allows you to perform modules again should you need to refresh your knowledge.
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Meet your instructor
Professor of Structural Integrity
Structural Integrity, Fatigue, Wind Turbine Structures
Program & Details
S-N curves
Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
Stress intensity factor
Life prediction of cracked components and structures using level I, II and III Fatigue Assessment Diagrams
Paris law
Fatigue crack length estimation
Crack Inspection using the Paris law
An introduction to corrosion-fatigue testing and analysis
Environmental Reduction Factor
Estimation of crack growth acceleration in free-corrosion environment
Demonstration of a case study: SLIC Joint Industry Project
Residual stress measurement using destructive and non-destructive techniques
Welding sequence effects on residual stress distribution in offshore wind monopiles
Residual stress effects on fatigue crack initiation and propagation
Case study: residual stress measurements in monopile weldments using neutron diffraction and contour techniques
Results
After this course, you...
are familiar with the mechanism of fatigue crack initiation and growth in wind turbine structures, and how this is impacted by residual stresses
know how level I, II and III Fatigue Assessment Diagrams can be used to predict the life of cracked components and structures
know the concept of Fracture mechanics based inspection, are familiar with the Paris law and how this is used to estimate crack length
have see how corrosion-fatigue testing is performed and analysed for monopile weldments
understand how residual stresses can be measured using both destructive and non-destructive techniques
have seen how residual stresses in offshore monopiles are related to the welding sequence.
Who should attend this course
Those looking to understand the approaches used for ensuring the Structural Integrity of offshore wind turbine foundations.
Structural engineers,
Asset integrity managers,
O&M engineers,
Offshore wind designers.
Prerequisites:
There are no specific prerequisites for this course.
Level: Intermediate
Live sessions
This course consists of instructor-led group sessions, these group sessions can be Virtual or Onsite. During these sessions participants can ask questions to the instructor which are discussed, as well as questions submitted beforehand in the learning portal.
After each live session used slides and exercise documents are made available to participants on the learning portal.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course. This allows you to watch content again if this is beneficial for your daily work activities.
The live sessions are scheduled together with the customer and are private for their team only.
Typically the training course would be scheduled as:
Virtual: 2 sessions of 3 hours
Onsite: 1 day of 6 hours plus breaks
A personal digital certificate will be made available to each participant upon full attendance.
Example Certificate:
FAQ
This course consists of instructor-led live sessions which consist of presentations, demonstrations and discussions of questions. During each live session participants can ask questions to the instructor (through chat or microphone) which will be answered.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
The training material used in the live sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
No, course content is not available for download.
The training material used in the sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
Yes, interactive Q&A sessions are part of the live sessions in this course and allow you to interact with the instructor and ask questions.
To respect the privacy of the participants the live sessions will not be recorded, and as such the live sessions cannot be played back. Therefore it is important for all participants to block the time slots of the live sessions in their calendars and be present.
No software licenses are provided as part of this course.
Yes, this course qualifies for PDH hours as per the NCEES CPC Guidelines.
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